Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marquez orchestrates this series of reversals with wry wit and irony. Latin American intellecutals have long remarked that for Europeans the Americas were a sort of blank page on which they could write what they dreamt of and needed and imagined. America was a utopia which they tried to possess and in which they tried to create a different version of Europe. And America was also a wilderness, a primeval and dangerous territory which could swallow the innocent European...
...daughter's hand; Joseph bets a cold blast of air from his meat locker. After a small protest, Catherine Falconetti (Tracey Ullman, the overblown British comedienne) marries him, becomes pregnant, and falls victim to her haggard mother-in-law's Old World superstitions. Her first miscarried child seems to possess a chicken's wings. Why? Because she walked into the butcher's shop while Joseph slaughtered a turkey, of course. We know that something other than a quaint portrait of 1940s Little Italy is taking form here...
...students would possess the tools for effective prose writing after the first semester, while those planning to write theses would pursue additional writing instruction in their own field. Under this system, the second semester writing requirement would become part of the plan of study for honors concentrators. This second writing course would become a logical and effective introduction to the concentration, preparing the student for the sophomore tutorial. While forcing the student to choose a discipline by the beginning of the second term, this additional course would give an early taste of the concentration before the sophomore year; thus...
...need to focus less on expansion and more on integration--on developing our capacities to coordinate, to consolidate, and to improve the programs we already offer and the resources we already possess," Rudenstine wrote...
...haven't allowed anyone underage to possess or consume alcohol since the state lowered its drinking age," said Rod Crafts, dean of student affairs at Brandeis College...