Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year franchise. The Panama Canal is owned and operated by the U.S. Government under a 1903 bilateral treaty in which Panama granted the U.S. "use, occupation and control" of the ten-mile-wide Canal Zone "in perpetuity," plus "all the rights, power and authority . . . which the U.S. would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory...
...Valencia, Montserrat and Genoa also claim to possess the Holy Grail, but Genoa claims that the cup there was not only used at the Last Supper but was originally given by the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon...
...Possessed Psychologist. Dr. Stein confesses that when first confronted by such a formidable patient, the analyst himself "is liable to become possessed of his own witchlike soul." If hag and analyst survive this initial stage, they will eventually come cordially to loathe each other. At this point the patient begins to look "old, hard, spiteful and evil" and uses every instrument in her power short of tears to establish dominion over the analyst. (True to the medieval belief that witches cannot weep, Stein has never seen the loathsome woman shed a tear.) Alternately sadistic and seductive, Dr. Stein...
...case against a worrisome potential cancer hazard: the dyes and additives used in the preparation and preservation of foods, soaps, cosmetics. The conference's conclusion: although the vast majority of dyes, additives and wrapping materials have not yet been adequately tested, there is clear evidence that some possess cancer-causing qualities. Doctors were careful to point out that they were not drawing a bill of particulars, but merely listing substances that require further investigation. Among suspects...
...week, hundreds of jittery boys and girls reported in at specified schools, sat down at the desks assigned to them, and waited for the clock to strike nine. For the next three hours they tackled questions for which none of them could have crammed. They matched pairs of words (POSSESS is to LOSE, as a) hesitate is to advance, b) cease is to recur, c) undertake is to perform, d) continue is to desist, e) produce is to supply); solved math problems and arranged given sentences into intelligible paragraphs ("a) Since his day it has undergone change, b) President James...