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Word: possession (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Books are the enemy of my kids; they are something that make [them] feel stupid," Rollins said. "With Dracula, we began to possess the book--the students reacted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rollins Tells Students Art Can Tranform Adolescents' Lives | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

Harvard, like many other schools, contends that the football and hockey teams demand more money for recruiting simply because of numerics and geography. Most teams possess only about 20 players, but in order to man a 100 person, for instance, the football program must entertain a much larger pool of potentials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R-e-s-p-e-c-t | 10/2/1996 | See Source »

...easy when you realize that some of the causes for those problems lie in the same basic character traits that you possess yourself, and that given the same circumstances, you might not have acted so very differently...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: Raining in Baltimore | 9/28/1996 | See Source »

...What this means is that for the first time in quite a while, models are opening their mouths, cracking a smile and looking in many instances as though they would rather play beach volleyball than snort heroin. So what is one of the greatest assets that a model can possess in this, the latest dawn of the girl next door? Freckles. You will find them all over the faces of such newcomers as Stacey McKenzie (above, center) and Elizabeth Moses (left), featured in splashy ads for Todd Oldham Jeans and the Gap. Meanwhile, old-timers like supermodel Nadja Auermann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FALL PREVIEW | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...subject of the American national identity is complex and contentious, often the subject of longwinded debates in American history circles. Some pundits say the United States suffers from a cultural divide. Americans don't have a common culture, they say; the American people comprise too many different cultures and possess too little national sentiment to sustain a single perspective (or even a single song). Certainly, something of what I've seen among my fellow Americans in Spain supports this argument. We come from very different communities; we represent different regions and ethnicities and viewpoints. My own perspective as an Asian...

Author: By Victor Chen, | Title: What It Means to Be American | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

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