Word: possessor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Khomeini's inflammatory rhetoric played a major part in the wave of Muslim fanaticism and anti-American violence that swept far beyond Iran. In Saudi Arabia, possessor of the world's greatest reserves of oil and American dollars, a band of extreme religious zealots seized the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest shrine in all Islam (see WORLD). In Pakistan, a mob enraged by radio reports claiming that the U.S. had inspired the attack on the Mecca mosque stormed and set fire to the U.S. embassy. They left the modernistic, 30-acre compound a gutted ruin. Two Americans were killed...
...better left alone lest they shatter at a touch and lose their magic in becoming real. This movie does just that to Tolkien. But that won't stop anyone from turning out the second half of Bakshi's tour de force. Once the Ring took control of its possessor, nothing could stop him from wanting more and more, even if the ultimate result was for the worst. Hollywood has the Ring now, and the business of perversion proceeds as Tolkien might have predicted. "...In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows...
Tied for second place were Harvard's Glenn Alexander, the possessor of one of the prettiest one-piece swings in New England, and the Big Green's Jack Kiernan. Alexander's brother Larry, who plays for Dartmouth, shot an 80 although he needed a nine on one hole...
...ringed planet Saturn, 917 million miles from Earth. The mission there is a look at the satellite Titan, where scientists hope to find organic molecules similar to those on Earth. Voyager 2 could be sent on to Uranus, 20 times farther from the sun than Earth, and possessor of a newly discovered system of rings (TIME, April 11); it would not reach Uranus until January 1986. Eventually the Voyagers would pass beyond the solar system...
...learn who Amy Wallace is, turn to page 521. She is a) Irving's daughter, b) David's sister, c) the possessor of "such psychic skills as clairvoyant reading and psychic healing...