Word: possessor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, at that point I was the proud possessor of not one but two complete sets of parents. But Mom had dropped me off in front of Holworthy at 8 a.m. and headed straight back to western New York. Sayonara sweetheart, have fun carrying those boxes to the third floor...
...real estate tycoon Donald J. (for John) Trump does not really loom colossus-high above the horizon of New York and New Jersey. He has created no great work of art or ideas, and even as a maker or possessor of money he does not rank among the top ten, or even 50. Yet at 42 he has seized a large fistful of that contemporary coin known as celebrity. There has been artfully hyped talk about his having political ambitions, worrying about nuclear proliferation, even someday running for President. No matter how farfetched that may be, something about his combination...
After providing apparently satisfactory answers to this and other questions, I am waved on, the possessor not only of a newly stamped passport but also of a sense of just how far the final few feet from Mexico to the U.S. really...
...Jesse Jackson was the sole possessor of oratorical flame in this year's contest, and his speech at the Democratic Convention should be a lesson to the two nominees in the general election. Avoid the specific, concentrate on the personal and the sweeping...
Though she claimed to have converted to Roman Catholicism and wore a plastic rosary and crucifix around her neck, Alice declared herself the possessor of many supernatural powers that have no connection with Christian belief. She spoke only Acholi and a smattering of English but claimed that her spirit was fluent in 74 languages. The oil she encouraged rebel fighters to smear on their bodies, which came from shea trees and is used in the manufacture of shampoo in the West, would make bullets "slip on top of your skin" and bounce back at the enemy. Alice also passed...