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[001] d haven't found a great deal"- Gross shot another _____ at Marshall. "It wasn't necessarily all here in New
[002] in the report. 'I've found errors and I want you to _____ them over'. So once again Shann had to argue with hi
[003] ditorial copy in his hand. He paused for a moment to _____ at me, then went on to the city desk to deliver his
[004] be construed in either of two ways. "Don't bother to _____ any further. We already have the only one of its kin
[005] and it hung over the stairway. The President used to _____ at it with a ghost of a smile. Mrs. Coolidge sp
[006] ery much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and _____ at it often. It had a tiny envelope tied to its wris
[007] of the animals. It was part of Little Jack's work to _____ after the dogs. One White House dog was immortali
[008] vening. She used to tell me, "When I stand there and _____ at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have th
[009] octor assigned to the White House, Dr. James Coupal, _____ Emmett over. As a result, he was sent to a hospital
[010] cance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to _____ at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respo
[011] osed. "You could come down to the office once a day, _____ over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then
[012] e evening of December 27th, Esther noticed my pallid _____ and rasping voice. She entreated me to see a doctor,
[013] I have not the heart. ... I never had the courage to _____ at them, when my projected volume became hopeless, f
[014] ly at this period that Littlepage got his first good _____ at the ordinary Russian soldier. These illiterate
[015] nd bum kidneys", the doctor said to me. "Transparent _____ , waxy skin- could well be uremia". He looked disappr
[016] s. All we wanted to do was to stand very quietly and _____ and
[017] and _____ and
[018] and _____ . More than twenty-four hundred years old, bruised
[019] ims to see their misdeeds and repent or they should " _____ upon them as men prepared for slaughter". At Shaw
[020] heatre Guild, which had asked him to let them have a _____ at it after Professor Baker had recommended it highl
[021] s that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they _____ as though they were made of paper instead of stone o
[022] Alfred, leaning on Meltzer, stopped for a minute to _____ at Tessie. She didn't turn away from the window. Alf
[023] d bent down, down, and her mark of friendship was to _____ into your face. I accepted her crossed eyes as she a
[024] , I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to _____ forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as w
[025] re occupied by" position. We must, therefore, have a _____ at the new archaeological material and re-examine th
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[001] realization that all people of the Free World have a _____ stake in the progress, in freedom, of the uncommitte
[002] rs and friends in Western Europe and Japan have made _____ economic progress. The international economy of
[003] and political disaster. America did not become _____ through softness and self-indulgence. Her miraculous
[004] and peace, to make sure that their own part of this _____ project be amply and cheerfully supported. Free worl
[005] ted States by surprise, even though we might sustain _____ losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible dest
[006] dards I have just described. Such performance is a _____ tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in
[007] nt. We note that, first, America has already made _____ contributions in the past two years to the world's
[008] York papers for December, 1957, and haven't found a _____ deal"- Gross shot another look at Marshall. "It w
[009] id no more than the United States did ... it takes a _____ deal of sophisticated thought to get the impact of t
[010] only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few _____ lyricists over the years, but also one who can funct
[011] ed on crutches at the Newspaper Club with one of his _____ pals, Oliver Herford, artist, author, and foe of stu
[012] Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a _____ white beard; the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at th
[013] net whom he successfully opposed for a time were the _____ Arthur Brisbane, Bradford Merrill, S.S. Carvalho, an
[014] t one of the rewrite telephones with my derby and my _____ beard, Arthur Brisbane whizzed in with some editoria
[015] nge telephones. I managed to do this by the time the _____ A.B. returned to the place where he last had seen th
[016] ges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to _____ Britain from 1921 to 1923. He had been a friend of t
[017] most, problems of psychotherapy. I am not aware of _____ attention by any of these authors or by the psychoth
[018] as expressed in a continuous and guided exposure to _____ literature. In any inquiry into the way in which
[019] literature. In any inquiry into the way in which _____ literature affects the emotions, particularly with r
[020] lso be more sensitive to personal differences is too _____ an inferential leap. I would say, too, that the
[021] er on characterizations of human nature and that the _____ periods of literary achievement may be distinguished
[022] that such broad developments and transitions are of _____ intrinsic interest and the study of ideas in literat
[023] study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a _____ deal about these three men and the age that each rep
[024] American, where he was known surreptitiously as "the _____ White Chief", and for the first time met his managin
[025] small sports shop in Strasbourg". That would be a _____ help, I told him, thanking him for his thoughtfulnes
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[001] d to that of these countries; we will not act in any _____ which would jeopardize our solemn commitments to the
[002] be only gradually earned; there is no easy and quick _____ to follow from the oxcart to the jet plane. But, jus
[003] He knew it would be implied that it was done in this _____ at his insistence. He was right, and Peter Marshall
[004] on is investigative and advisory and does not in any _____ derogate from or prejudice Mr. Bang-Jensen's rights
[005] g the papers burned. Hammerskjold didn't like the _____ it was carried out. It was a sort of Go^tterda^mmeru
[006] an organization that settles matters in a procedural _____ ...". Peter Marshall reflected. If Hammarskjold h
[007] nn in the Delegates' Lounge ... and this was not the _____ the Chicago Tribune presented it". Gross reached
[008] nd of mine. He probably didn't mean to write it this _____ , or maybe he did. There wasn't any 'violent argument
[009] is calling; all day long the Caravan slowly made her _____ through the difficult passages. Alas, to Ann's const
[010] when landing in East India Company territory. On the _____ they tried to discover all they could about Burma,
[011] ttacking all Convocations of the clergy. In the same _____ he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Arc
[012] noon Mrs. Mercer met her; both were obviously on the _____ to the Mercer home. The mother inquired, "Where's Jo
[013] When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this _____ and that
[014] and that _____ , I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans a
[015] feeling that Americans are protected no matter which _____ the wind blows". Even when Mrs. Coolidge was in m
[016] d should do and how one should regard it. In a small _____ this is illustrated by the nineteenth-century noveli
[017] teacher of society and who illustrated this with the _____ a girl learned to meet her lover, how to behave, how
[018] literature contributes to this control in a curious _____ . William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me,
[019] it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the _____ in which this control is effected: "For if we say po
[020] ger and indignation)- then it may be that the poetic _____ of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind
[021] hild: he plays "house" or "doctor" or "fireman" as a _____ of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliv
[022] re to great literature. In any inquiry into the _____ in which great literature affects the emotions, part
[023] he work we are reading reflects or "belongs to" some _____ of thought labelled as a "school" or an "- ism", i.e
[024] st sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the _____ in which its leaders have read and interpreted the B
[025] ed bring to conscious expression. In much the same _____ , we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's famila
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[001] to escort Paula to the streetcar. She left the next _____ for her teaching job at Princeton, Illinois. (After
[002] ack of courage to deal boldly with the issues of the _____ . A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was
[003] ' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same _____ for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until hi
[004] s not merely alleging errors, but was carried out by _____ -after-
[005] -after- _____ allegations in memos, written charges of serious con
[006] quate preparation". Ernest Gross replied the next _____ , putting the suspended diplomat's fears to rest. "Th
[007] But I have been blest with excellent spirits, and to- _____ have been running about the deck, and dancing in our
[008] ys for such a man, but Captain Heard was lucky. Next _____ a ship arrived with an English pilot, his leadsman,
[009] pilot possessed excellent skill at his calling; all _____ long the Caravan slowly made her way through the dif
[010] mber of the Irish Privy Council. On December 21, the _____ that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for remov
[011] punishment by expulsion from Parliament. On the very _____ that the parliamentary session began, another "Infam
[012] six young Johnny indicated that he had the call. One _____ he followed the Irish Jasper Greens, the town band,
[013] ens, the town band, to a picnic and spent the entire _____ listening, while his family spent the
[014] listening, while his family spent the _____ looking. The disappearance caused his family to assi
[015] imprint himself upon the memories of producers. One _____ in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer ste
[016] ocked out, we'd get together for an hour or so every _____ . While Johnny made himself comfortable on the couch,
[017] on sundry allusions to the 'Amen Corner', 'judgement _____ ', 'Gabriel's horn', and a frustrated devil- with a f
[018] anged. I had had difficulties from the very first _____ . When, in my enthusiasm, I proposed the party, my ci
[019] to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one _____ by means of various coups: the destruction of editor
[020] en, vaguely imparted, and at times preposterous. One _____ he assigned me to lay bare a "plot" by the Duponts
[021] It's bigger than the Armistice". I worked for a _____ on this plainly ridiculous assignment and consulted
[022] , and not as a rule by playing clever tricks. One _____ I tired of following the Hetman's advice of "shadowi
[023] yed with the tragedy which was to close over him one _____ . Alone, rejected on every hand, divorced, and in fin
[024] ch me with a ten-foot blue pencil. I remember one _____ when Mr. Hearst (and I never knew why he liked me, e
[025] as a perfect angel with the First Family. Every _____ , when the President took his nap, Rob Roy would stre
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[001] is a problem to be solved not by America alone, but _____ by every nation cherishing the same ideals and in po
[002] recommended that the secret papers be destroyed. It _____ implied that Paul Bang-Jensen had been irresponsible
[003] The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail _____ interested her greatly, even if she was suitably sho
[004] have turned the world upside down, are come hither _____ ". Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocatio
[005] cupied him in the Englishman; but there is much here _____ which bears directly on his personal quarrel with Sw
[006] icked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces _____ of the Gullah dialects of Africa. Such speech differ
[007] e one of the few great lyricists over the years, but _____ one who can function remarkably under pressure. He h
[008] e who can function remarkably under pressure. He has _____ enjoyed a successful career as an entertainer (his r
[009] he millions) and is a sharp businessman. He has _____ an extraordinary conscience. In 1927 his father's bu
[010] he Gaieties, by Sterling Holloway. This 1930 edition _____ had songs in it by Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin, by
[011] an band as a vocalist. With the help of Ziggy Elman, _____ in the band, he transformed a traditional Jewish mel
[012] aldson, Jerome Kern, and Arthur Schwartz. Mercer has _____ written both music and lyrics for several songs. He
[013] d Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked _____ with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues. Ar
[014] ord Merrill, S.S. Carvalho, and Colonel Van Hamm. He _____ disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the f
[015] to take off my derby, my glasses, and the beard; and _____ to change telephones. I managed to do this by the ti
[016] successfully for the riddance of "Death Avenue" and _____ brought about the ending of pollution of metropolita
[017] l was for the other dogs to come running, but it was _____ the signal for Mama and the other maids to watch out
[018] icials to attend. He caused a lot of talk when he _____ chose the breakfast hour to have the barber come in
[019] effect of crisis upon personal relationships and are _____ able to raise calm and realistic voices when overbur
[020] t those more sensitive to metaphor and language will _____ be more sensitive to personal differences is too gre
[021] questions of form, "texture", or technique. He may _____ consider ideas. It is true that this distinction bet
[022] initions that have been advanced over the centuries; _____ secondary notions such as the perfectibility of man,
[023] require both these commentaries. Very likely it will _____ include a recognition that the work we are reading r
[024] the attention of English men of letters. We may _____ recognize cases in which the poets have influenced t
[025] rth and Meredith is a recent interesting example, as _____ A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the English roman
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[001] ondon, Ontario. She was pious, too, once kneeling _____ the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite
[002] olitical disaster. America did not become great _____ softness and self-indulgence. Her miraculous progres
[003] s, as expressed in their different multi-year plans. _____ the World Bank and other instrumentalities, as well
[004] e World Bank and other instrumentalities, as well as _____ individual action by every nation in position to hel
[005] . We must be ever alert that freedom does not wither _____ the careless amassing of restrictive controls or the
[006] papers". "Well, as a matter of fact, I've looked _____ back-issue files of New York papers for December, 19
[007] btain the services of a reputable pilot to steer her _____ the shallow waters. Sometimes ships waited for
[008] alling; all day long the Caravan slowly made her way _____ the difficult passages. Alas, to Ann's consternation
[009] sailing ships. The noise stunned her. Crowds flocked _____ the waterfront streets chattering loudly in their st
[010] y assumed his stance there when a fat fellow charged _____ the doorway. Without any regard for rest-room protoc
[011] House in a state of terror. The dogs would run _____ the halls after him like a burst of bullets, and all
[012] ish monopolists and cutthroat competitors. And so on _____ the roles referred to in the previous paragraph. Div
[013] ssentially involves their incitement". The rehearsal _____ literature of emotional life under controlled condit
[014] are inexhaustible and the one is often understood _____ the other. When we assert the value of such study
[015] mediacies of sensuous or emotional experience. It is _____ such reflection that literature approaches philosoph
[016] ion in religious practice and theological reflection _____ practical politics and political theory into literat
[017] ologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, _____ which so many abstract ideas were brought to the att
[018] would dislike living in New York, and the deal fell _____ . Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat wi
[019] rmer with his own program, determined to bulldoze it _____ or to blazon the infamy of those who balked him. He
[020] stic of Trevelyan's prose which remained conspicuous _____ his later works- a genius for describing military ac
[021] an. Associated in a sense with the Manchester School _____ his mother's family, Trevelyan conveys in this biogr
[022] he vade mecum of beginning students of history, went _____ edition after edition, and continues to be reprinted
[023] his communications. When McPherson pushed blindly _____ Snake Creek Gap in a potentially decisive movement,
[024] , cartridge boxes and hats. They kicked their horses _____ the deep water with their bare heels, drove the Rebe
[025] he Rebels got away since they could make better time _____ the stiff brush than their naked pursuers. Rank
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[001] anner had never been his". Ernest A. Gross leaned _____ in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary G
[002] icult to talk like this about a man who can't answer _____ ". Gross was behind a clean-top desk, only a manil
[003] "Well, as a matter of fact, I've looked through _____ -issue files of New York papers for December, 1957, a
[004] Although after much trouble he did manage to get it _____ , he discovered there was no trade to be had. All Cap
[005] ere was no trade to be had. All Captain Gibault took _____ to Salem were a few items for the town's East India
[006] or even execution might well be their fate. "Go _____ to America or any other place", well-meaning friends
[007] onored Southern family that could trace its ancestry _____ to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland
[008] morning after promising his doctor that he would be _____ in an hour or two to continue his convalescence. Art
[009] air. The unfinished note, written in pencil upon the _____ of a used envelope, and addressed to the coroner, ma
[010] s on the Lincoln bed. At night, when Mama would turn _____ the covers, she would have to take all the dolls off
[011] Presidents- if I can get it organized. But to get _____ to the Coolidge household, Mrs. Coolidge so obviousl
[012] ona until his health improved enough for him to come _____ to Washington to work in the Government service. But
[013] hings we must think symbolically about] and bring us _____ to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aestheti
[014] effort of historical sympathy we can cast our minds _____ into the art of a remote past or an alien present, a
[015] ominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it _____ from the field of battle: 'All is lost, including ou
[016] ldi to cross the Straits of Messina. In looking _____ over the volumes, it is possible to find errors of i
[017] to leave Fran e. He examined it carefully, handed it _____ and said, "Eh bien, you may leave France". I to
[018] on", the Interior Ministry man coaxed, "you may come _____ to Strasbourg, now, if you wish". "Oh? Then will
[019] crowded around asking questions, slapping me on the _____ , and generally being friendly. "But what will you
[020] ll seeing Thomas ride so fast. While Thomas' injured _____ led him to restrain his mount from its most violent
[021] his orders ending the campaign and pulled his armies _____ to Atlanta. The measure of combat efficiency in an i
[022] cigarette stubs, shook his head, and moved his hand _____ and forth in a strong negative gesture. The little o
[023] was established. In the late afternoon Mando came _____ to fetch us, and we drove to the Acropolis. We stopp
[024] k, make a brisk pirouette, skirts flaring, and march _____ to his point of departure. We did not dare speak to
[025] trespassed on Gorton's land. While driving the cow _____ home the woman was assaulted by a servant maid of Go
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[001] war, we continue to maintain our carrier forces, our _____ service units abroad, our always ready Army strategic
[002] lopment of large rocket engines to place vehicles of _____ tons into space for exploration purposes. Fourth,
[003] the Congress shortly. ## The accomplishment of the _____ tasks I have alluded to requires the continuous stre
[004] ents of this 195-page document would become known to _____ before it would become known to the man it was wri
[005] erence was to clarify the problem of the list, since _____ in the press were querying the U.N. about it. What w
[006] take these things up now. "You know, this hits in _____ areas. It appeals to those who were frustrated in th
[007] ployed. Some are fishing, some driving the team, and _____ are sitting indolently on the banks of the river. Th
[008] nvocation of Ireland". On this issue, then, as on so _____ in these months, Steele and Swift took rigidly oppos
[009] Americanegro Suite and said of it, "Of all the _____ songs written by white composers and employing what
[010] the party, my city editor (who disliked the club and _____ of its members) tried to block my participation in t
[011] at Ferber and Carl Helm. In the conduct of these and _____ other campaigns, the Hetman proved to be a much able
[012] It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that _____ of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions- together w
[013] and addressed to the coroner, makes one wonder about _____ things: "God forgive me for everything. I cannot .
[014] the President would sit reading, or playing with the _____ pets around them. Now and then, the President w
[015] Coolidge gave Mama this dress for me, and I wore it _____ times. I still have the dress, and I hope to give it
[016] met. Modern psychiatric knowledge provides us with _____ keys to unlock the significance of behavior of the k
[017] at invites critical examination in terms of reality. _____ selections are themselves convincing contributions t
[018] ted and endorsed by individuals and organizations of _____ religious and philosophical traditions. Within
[019] tion of Israel as a nation state, claims are made in _____ cases which identify the claimant as a member of the
[020] egarding members of nation states. In free countries _____ controversies involve self-styled Jews who use the s
[021] ities that cluster around the key symbol of the Jew. _____ public and private controversies will undoubtedly
[022] eologians as Niebuhr and Buber. It forms the core of _____ , perhaps most, problems of psychotherapy. I am not a
[023] wood, a philosopher whose work has proved helpful to _____ students of literature, once wrote "We are all, thou
[024] udents of literature, once wrote "We are all, though _____ of us are snobbish enough to wish to deny it, in far
[025] the tyranny of the contemporary. Such study may take _____ forms. The study of ideas in literature is one of th
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[001] xt day for her teaching job at Princeton, Illinois. ( _____ graduation from the University of Chicago, Paula tau
[002] t merely alleging errors, but was carried out by day- _____ -day allegations in memos, written charges of serious
[003] with Alsing Andersen, trying to check them out. Even _____ the incident between Bang- Jensen and Shann in the
[004] about this. But it wasn't a violent discussion. And _____ all this, Shann went over all that Bang-Jensen had b
[005] th the Gross group as "unfortunate experiences", and _____ his second meeting on the sixteenth the Dane refused
[006] ember of the three-man group. J. A. C. Robertson, _____ serving Gross one week, left for England. Fortunat
[007] were enjoying the voyage. The sickness was gone and, _____ all, the two young couples were on their honeymoon.
[008] d cold. At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which _____ their finally landing in India was sent to her mothe
[009] king of the vessel, and the almost intolerable smell _____ the rain, that I have done little more than lounge o
[010] near, and on June 12, one hundred and fourteen days _____ leaving America, they actually saw, twenty miles awa
[011] e. Harriet's mouth watered with anticipation when _____ months of dreaming she sat down at last to her much-
[012] aken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River. Although _____ much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discov
[013] h a cargo of gum lacquer which nobody wanted to buy. _____ that Salem ships decided to bypass unfriendly Burma.
[014] indicating his sympathy for such a plan. A few days _____ this Englishman appeared, Defoe reported to Oxford t
[015] y Mercer, begun some years before. The film they did _____ his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing tit
[016] nd returned to Savannah. But Mercer hung on, living, _____ a fashion, in a Greenwich Village fourth-flight walk
[017] the real beginning of Mercer's song-writing career. _____ leaving Whiteman, Mercer joined the Benny Goodman ba
[018] ercer, Arlen says, "Our working habits were strange. _____ we got a script and the spots for the songs were blo
[019] unes for him. He has a wonderfully retentive memory. _____ I would finish playing the songs, he'd just go away
[020] Arthur Robinson got out of the hospital that morning _____ promising his doctor that he would be back in an hou
[021] wn for a highball and a game of cards. In the jakes, _____ Robbie and his crutches were properly stowed, Mr. He
[022] ame an editor, hence, in his eyes, a rival. Not long _____ Colonel Van Hamm had foisted me on the Watson staff
[023] the envelope was "Cynthia". The Coolidges' life, _____ the death of their son, was quieter than ever. John
[024] e animals. It was part of Little Jack's work to look _____ the dogs. One White House dog was immortalized in
[025] e of terror. The dogs would run through the halls _____ him like a burst of bullets, and all the maids would