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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assistant dean of the College for coeducation and secretary to the Ad Board, the amount to alcohol related cases has increased this year as more students drink and as the college becomes "More comfortable" with the new alcohol policy, which makes it illegal for people under 21 to possess alcohol...

Author: By Carrie L. Zinaman, | Title: Women Drink More Today | 3/1/1994 | See Source »

When all is said and done, after all, it's the ability to put the ball in the basket that counts most, and--except for a few brief stretches--Harvard simply did not possess that ability last night...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Shooting Blanks | 2/5/1994 | See Source »

Some autistics possess an "excellent ability of logical abstract thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diagnosing Bill Gates | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...show, a politician with near total recall of conversations and events from long ago, a meticulous record keeper capable of itemizing underwear donations to charity. Why, then, are so many vital Whitewater records missing? How is it possible that two respected lawyers like Bill and Hillary Clinton don't possess a paper trail capable of proving their innocence -- unless they're hiding something? How could products of the Watergate generation ignore the central lesson of Richard Nixon's downfall: stonewalling, and even its mere appearance, can be at least as corrosive as laying out the whole tale publicly, unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Where It Hurts | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...when Gerry and three other Irish friends are held in a London jail for seven days without being informed of their charges, he begins a saga that will prove this petty thief to possess a greater moral conscience than the representatives of the British police and judicial system. Mercilessly abused during questionings, they eventually learn they are accused of bombing a pub in Guildford. However, they are innocent: "We didn't even have the bus fare to Guildford even if we had known where it was," Gerry recalls. By the time the case is brought to court, the "Guildford Four...

Author: By Katherine C. Raff, | Title: British Justice Walking on Eire | 1/21/1994 | See Source »

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