Word: possessiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...identification. What the blackmailed Muscovites feared was revealed in the columns of Moskovskaya Pravda, which stated ominously: "We assume the Anti-Speculation Squad will try to clarify how the victims accumulated such large sums. Speaking plainly, it is hardly usual for a store manager or a fur cutter to possess hundreds of thousands of rubles...
...only be regretted, how that 20th Century Week did possess as much value for the students body at large. One wishes that a complete synthesis of the inner of 20th Century Week and parts that were open to the could have been achieved. For the ject matter of the Week should been considered by the entire Harvard community, not only by the group of interested students probably would have given questions serious thought...
...often sat through four-hour sessions without opening his mouth, soon became known as "Maurice the Silent." In the subsidized biography of Big Bill Hutcheson (for which the union, if not its rank-and-file members, cheerfully paid $310,000), Author Maxwell Raddock described Maurice: "He seems to possess all the qualities of a leader; he is tall, he has a good heart, and he is moderate in everything, even in the use of his intelligence...
Perhaps the biggest difference between De Gaulle and the Fascists lies not in the area of political philosophy, where they held many ideas in common, but rather in the deeply personal morality and greatness of soul which De Gaulle alone possess. What Hitler, in self-imposed exile, could have concluded a Mein Kampfwith these lines...
...weeks later, Foreign Secretary Lord Home got a reply from the British Consul General in Muscat detailing his findings: "The Sultanate has not, since 1937, possessed a band. None of the Sultan's subjects, so far as I am aware, can read music, which the majority regard as sinful. The manager of the British Bank of the Middle East, who can, does not possess a clarinet. Even if he did, the dignitary who, in the absence of the Sultan, is the recipient of ceremonial honors and who might be presumed to recognize the tune is somewhat deaf. Fortunately...