Word: possessed
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Barry, 54, is charged with eleven misdemeanor counts of possessing or conspiring to possess cocaine and three felony counts of lying to a federal grand jury in 1989 about drug use. If convicted on all charges, he could be jailed for 26 years. His lawyer, R. Kenneth Mundy, calls the federal sting operation that caught Barry smoking crack with Rasheeda Moore "entrapment pure and simple." It was, says Mundy, a plot devised by a Republican Federal Government frustrated by the failure of a seven-year effort to chase a flamboyant -- and virtually unbeatable -- Democrat from office. The prosecution contends that...
...fact, if there's anything that unites many of the different groups in the Square, it's the academic air they possess. The book-filled backpack (the embodiment of "intellectual baggage," perhaps?) is the closest thing to a uniform Cambridge has to offer...
Despite its reputation for loosening the restraints on sexual expression, the Supreme Court in recent terms has been making things easier for the anti- obscenity prosecutions. The court recently upheld an Ohio law that made it illegal to possess child pornography. Last year it okayed the use of powerful racketeering laws to seize the assets of pornographers...
Infantry evolved from the French word for child, reflecting the childlike state of compliance an officer instills in his troops. Soldiers are taught to obey unquestioningly. Children, less accustomed to independence than adults, are more tractable. And though a 13-year-old may not possess the strength of a soldier ten years his senior, this is the age of the AK-47 and the M-16, lightweight weapons a youngster can be taught to use as easily as an adult. Historian John Keegan calls the M-16 "the transistor radio of modern warfare" and argues that it has changed...
Though the popularly elected Commons does possess the constitutional power to prevail eventually, the obstreperous naysaying of the upper house served as a reminder that their Lordships still are not quite toothless...