Word: possess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Classics, successfully exhibiting the virtues of team basketball, possess the best seasonal record (23-4) of any basketball squad at Harvard University...
...contact unsuspecting pigeons, or potential victims. The salesman, in a follow-up phone call, might then say discreetly, "If you act now, I can squeeze you in on a contract." While most of the contracts have not yet fallen due, investigators allege that brokers in fact do not possess the oil to back up the bogus deals. Eventually, customers would find that the salesmen had either left town or were no longer in business at the time of delivery...
...latest novel demands greater analytic skills and literary knowledge. No teacher could spoonfeed Darkness Visible to eager sixth and seventh graders the way he might have Lord Of The Flies. For example, the Miltonic overtones, from the title's derivation in Paradise Lost to the satanic qualities that possess so many of his characters, must be perceived for Darkness Visible to succeed as the literary achievement that...
...Quakers possess depth, particularly at numbers five and six, but the Crimson's fifth-ranked Chip Robie played a steady power game to dispose of Philly native Peter Monaghan, and sixth-slotted Joe Somers edged Penn's Pat Murray in five tough games...
...teams' personnel matches up fairly evenly, although the Hoosiers do possess a decided advantage in the sprints and thus possibly in the relays...