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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Producers of other materials, too, are now banding together to try to lift prices. Countries that possess iron ore (including Venezuela and Brazil) and seven bauxite producers (Guinea, Guyana, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Surinam, Australia and Yugoslavia) are talking about forming cartels. Coffee-producing nations hope to control prices by reducing exports from the Central American republics. Oil-rich Venezuela promises to make up their short-term losses in revenues with subsidies from a special investment fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARTELS: Imitating OPEC | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

Vogt accepted the baton, nothing that the Maya Indians also own batons which, they believe, possess an inner soul placed there by the gods to foster leadership...

Author: By Ralph J. Banasiak, | Title: Vogts Receive Baton and Key In Kirkland Masters Ceremony | 11/27/1974 | See Source »

...practice they run drills which include heading the ball continuously for the full length of the penalty area, bouncing it on their thighs while running, and then chipping it with their heels well enough to make any reporter who has said that they do not possess individual ball handling skills eat his pencil...

Author: By Efthimios O. Vidalis, | Title: Ivy Soccer Championship on the Line As Harvard Booters Challenge Brown | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

...second station close to Saigon joined in. The NLF expressed great surprise in its own broadcasts, because no group--religious, students, or military--has the facilities in Saigon to broadcast without detection. Experts guess that a mobile transmitter is involved. The only group which is known to possess one of these expensive, hard-to-come-by devices...

Author: By Charles E. Stephen, | Title: Dumping Thieu? | 11/6/1974 | See Source »

...horses, by the way, are simply tall men in chestnut track suits. On their feet are strutted hooves about 4 in. high. On their heads are airy, stylized masks of interlaced leather and silver wire. These possess such hieratic dignity and beauty that a special citation should be awarded Scenery Designer and Costumer John Napier. How could these noble animals be maimed by a boy who revered them? For answers, Playwright Shaffer digs into his rather voluminous bag of stereotypes. Alan's mother is a frigid religious hysteric, compellingly played by Frances Sternhagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Freudian Exorcism | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

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