Sentence:  At a reception for new members of Congress , Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger , taking the Senate seat <WSD>held</WSD> by her husband Richard until his death last March , got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson , U. S. Ambassador-designate to the U. N. . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense