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[001] rst floor are an interesting example of the builder's _____ . At present the house, gardens and park are rented by
[002] deas guided their thinking about history, politics and _____ , but especially about each individual being responsib
[003] politics and religion. They shared the same taste in _____ and literature and laughed at the same jokes. They w
[004] many things in the last ten years - from literature, _____ , history, the Bible - and felt that he now understood
[005] ow and to Uncle Kolya about new ideas in philosophy, _____ and politics. The other circle also contained new ide
[006] s great ambition was to write an important book about _____ or science - something new but useful as well. Tonya
[007] performances. In Afghanistan, buildings and works of _____ have been discovered which copied exactly the artisti
[008] lexandria, ships took paper, medicines, jewellery and _____ all over the known world. The Ptolemaic kings mixed G
[009] years everybody's going to be." WHAT IS PERFORMANCE _____ and who does it? An outgrowth of Dadaist theatricals
[010] developed in New York from the late 1970's on as an _____ of hip monologues in which men and women told storie
[011] ever reapplied. In the wake of the furor, performance _____ was popularly redefined. The genre was now simply a t
[012] mosexuality. All of these could be seen in performance _____ , of course, sometimes with the short-sighted goal of
[013] d this year make clear, there is more to performance _____ than scandal. For all its anarchy and humor, perform
[014] scandal. For all its anarchy and humor, performance _____ has the far more legitimate aim of probing American s
[015] re they reach across decades. Like NVC Arts' recent " _____ of Singing: Golden Voffices of the Century, " both o
[016] ng the strategy announced by the group's name on "The _____ of War, " their third collection since 1994. Bone Th
[017] proclaims the virtues of the San Francisco Bay Area _____ he has collected for more than 30 years versus "the
[018] collected for more than 30 years versus "the insular _____ of that island known as Manhattan. " His welcome co
[019] ike roses. I actually like the thorns, and some of the _____ you'll see here is thorny, so I hope it needles you a
[020] rivate-collection-turned-public-institution. Like such _____ meccas as the Palazzo Doria Pamphili in Rome, the Fri
[021] s preserve, which opened last March, gives the whole _____ museum idea a deliriously Northern California spin.
[022] ants. Billed as "singing bonfires, " Water Fire is an _____ event that waits for nightfall, then seizes onlookers
[023] niversity. "Better Color Through Chemistry, " Islip _____ Museum, 50 Irish Lane, East Islip. Through Sept. 21.
[024] more than that. The style of its language denotes an _____ separate from conversation or explanation, spiking t
[025] s for New Jersey practitioners of the world's oldest _____ . This year's festival, which has been deliberately sl
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[001] told him that my home was Court Place at West Hatch, _____ Salisbury. Maudsley seemed to admire the name Court P
[002] ian and saw her down the street. I noticed that a man _____ her touched his hat. It seems clear to me now that sh
[003] owards it. Suddenly we saw a man's head and shoulders _____ the platform. He climbed up onto the platform. For a
[004] he jumped off the top. I knew then that the river was _____ . 'This place is private,' Denys said. 'That man shoul
[005] r perhaps.' 'You sit together,' he repeated. 'Are you _____ enough to give her something?' 'Give her something?
[006] om a bottle; but I hated all the conversation. I sat _____ Marian, but she did not look at me. She was intereste
[007] d at the address proudly: Leo Colston, Brandham Hall, _____ Norwich. It was a good address. I read the letter in
[008] tter that he did not answer. The next day I found him _____ the haystack, and he gave me the note. 'There's no b
[009] was one fact in a lot of doubts. Ted Burgess met me _____ the gate and greeted me politely. I noticed that his
[010] going to stay?' 'Until the thirtieth.' 'That's very _____ . You can't go then. Stay until the end of the holiday
[011] except with you.' I posted the letter and then waited _____ the door. The people who were going to church were no
[012] .' Chapter 17 An Important Decision BRAND HAM HALL, _____ NORWICH, NORFOLK. Dear Mother [I wrote], I am sorry t
[013] had continued along the path, and the huts were quite _____ now. Suddenly I saw something which made me shake. It
[014] y begun to break it. Marian was not going to find him _____ the huts at six oclock. Ted had said half past six. W
[015] uld not go to Beeston Castle. . We were all standing _____ the front door. Marian said, 'Come with me, Leo, and
[016] ot want to go on. Marcus and I had heard the voffices _____ those huts. I wondered if he had told his mother abou
[017] ut he prefers Hugh.' 'You must be very glad that he's _____ you,' I said. Her face changed then. I thought that s
[018] There was nobody outside. The food was on the floor, _____ the door. A5 I stepped outside and bent down to pick
[019] lasses still covered one eye. His hands' were nowhere _____ the dynamite. Policemen came running from all the off
[020] e around 11 AM. , Washington police found a small car _____ Fort Totten Park, in a gang area in die northeast of
[021] ilies were soon separated. We stayed in a small hotel _____ the beach at La Ceiba. The beach was dirty. Cows walk
[022] suitable for animals, but people were living in them. _____ the shore, the sea was thick with plastic bottles and
[023] ou work. The man said yes. The whole family sat down _____ the other Zambus. Father started to tell them about t
[024] s. One day Alice was worried about Drainy playing too _____ the pool. 'Drainy Roper,' she said, 'you come away fr
[025] aid. 'Not that kind.' The women ran away when we came _____ , and the men in the village stared at us. 'They've p
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[001] suddenly. "No, he's too sensible. He's drunk, and his _____ is running wild. ' 'You can't understand!' he said. '
[002] Hall I do not remember Brandham Hall very well. In my _____ there are faint pictures of parts of the house, but t
[003] sition, but Mr Maudsley was quiet and did not seem to _____ . It soon became clear to me that Mr Maudsley was a ve
[004] things can be a birthday present. His mother wouldn't _____ that, I'm sure. When is your birthday, Leo?' 'It's. .
[005] ual.' She tried to understand this mystery of a boy's _____ . Then she said, 'That's good. You'll be here on your
[006] I could not explain all the thoughts that were in my _____ . I wrote about Viscount Trimingham, Marian and Marcus
[007] ow. Mother thinks you might not be interested. Do you _____ staying here?' 'Of course not; I replied. I remembere
[008] uld: she said. 'But I'd like to go alone if you don't _____ .' I minded very much, but I did not tell her so. 'But
[009] d felt the letter again. With no other intention in my _____ , I took it out and looked at it. There was no address
[010] this problem. Marian's face and figure came into my _____ like a picture. Perhaps she had written something abo
[011] o win, although they also welcomed our men. But in my _____ they were all enemies that we had to defeat. I partic
[012] .' I was very surprised. Many thoughts rushed into my _____ , but only one stayed there. It was a terrible thought
[013] is mother knew it too. A sudden thought came into my _____ . 'Did you see Marian at Nannie Robson's house?' I as
[014] her beauty. It was mainly, perhaps, her quickness of _____ . She seemed to know our thoughts before we spoke them
[015] ng of herself. I asked a question that had been in my _____ for a long time. It was a rather stupid question. 'M
[016] Marcus would argue with me. When that idea entered my _____ , I had to change my plan. I knew that I would never b
[017] have a rather urgent note for Miss Robson. Would you _____ taking it?' Stanton agreed and held out his hand. My
[018] y my experience at Brandham was not 'finished'. In my _____ there were the most terrible pictures of Teds dead bo
[019] s. In time it was the search for facts that calmed my _____ . My memory and my diary gave me enough facts for this
[020] ven after fifty years that idea was still stuck in my _____ . I left the church and walked down the main street of
[021] lems of the 'natural' life meet the dreams in Allie's _____ . . . Paul Theroux was born in Massachusetts in the US
[022] s - I thought that Fat Boy was a model of my father's _____ , and he wanted us to see inside him. . When Fat B
[023] im upstairs again. 'Your bed is in the shop. You don't _____ sleeping among the coins? But it doesn't matter wheth
[024] ng among the coins? But it doesn't matter whether you _____ or not. You can't sleep anywhere else.' Oliver was le
[025] upstairs from the hall and wake the family. He did not _____ if he died. With this idea in his
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[001] World War, had a great eect on Hardey, and we get a _____ of this in the sadness that the older Leo expresses fo
[002] and I understood. It seemed to fill the room with a _____ of power. 'There are a lot of people at the Hall, I e
[003] on any of them. I couldn't do it. It didn't make any _____ to me now. I went to my computer and began searching
[004] All that day, when Father was awake, his talk made no _____ ; when he was asleep, he screamed in his dreams. 'The
[005] epressed and worried and felt that she could not make _____ of the world. Fortunately, she had a friend and neigh
[006] untry. They sat up most of that night, trying to make _____ of these latest events. 'The surprise,' said Yury, '
[007] w days, something was going on with Yury that made no _____ . He stopped taking care of the house, or the horse, o
[008] doubts as they think about unification in a concrete _____ , as something that might actually happen any time bec
[009] es Corner, it's obvious that America makes much more _____ from the air (which is the way many travelers see it)
[010] another word that is similar in sound but different in _____ . It has always been a critical part of pro football
[011] -year-old single mother of a teen-age girl, can, in a _____ , peer into her past. It was there, across town, in a
[012] nts in Port Washington next door, giving residents a _____ of community. A 21-member private police force, back
[013] decoding. Gone also, in some places at least, is the _____ of impotence many AIDS sufferers, and the doctors wh
[014] d in the first place. This is not, in the traditional _____ , a book about the Vietnam War. This book is the Viet
[015] her poetry didn't - and in a way that made particular _____ in a place where I, a pale, unathletic New York City
[016] s put one foot in front of the other, but in a larger _____ they-and the rest of California-moved only backward.
[017] d of many of its AIDS-stricken dancers, is in another _____ rich and peopled and full: of individual histories, o
[018] our time,' yet March was never able to overcome the _____ that his work was marginal. Then, in a particularly
[019] n, Toronto and anyone else interested. It makes more _____ than looking only at Los Angeles, because once again
[020] g dealt with in other cities more humanely and with a _____ of public order we lack. They're still planted in pub
[021] 26-year- old ban on garbage disposals defied common _____ , the New York City Council discarded it on Wednesday
[022] space-efficient means for inculcating in the young a _____ of discipline and responsibility. (Which is why, in a
[023] culum at home? B: We don't have a curriculum in the _____ of an organized programme of work that we solidly go
[024] I'd say that ninety per cent of first aid is common _____ , and only ten per cent is specialist knowledge. If s
[025] here generally we get it wrong, we follow our common _____ but it lets us down, and we do the wrong thing? Dr
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[001] were the boys who attacked me most frequently. On the _____ page of the diary I had written: , SPELL THREE AFTER
[002] unpopular before, and I could not understand it. The _____ morning somebody said to me, 'Have you heard the news
[003] . All that day we smelt the beautiful smell of home. _____ morning, two vehicles arrived at the door of the schoo
[004] ham was dinner on 9th July. I was a new guest and sat _____ to Mrs Maudsley. She smiled at me and said, 'Marcus h
[005] d just introduced me to her again. And when I saw her _____ , I looked at her closely. Marian was very tall, and
[006] her. It had been cool on Monday when I travelled. The _____ day it was hot, and the sky was cloudless. Marcus and
[007] in writing.' I remember that the spell succeeded. The _____ day the temperature did not reach seventy-seven, and
[008] er if you go on Monday.' Marian had decided to go the _____ day. 'Hugh won't enjoy it, Mother,' she said. 'He kno
[009] 'Perhaps I will,' she said. Chapter 10 Secrets The _____ day was Tuesday. Between Tuesday and Saturday I carr
[010] interested in the letter that he did not answer. The _____ day I found him near the haystack, and he gave me the
[011] at last he smiled at Marian and thanked her. The man _____ to me said, 'That's better. She's a lady, I know, and
[012] nd I felt tired. Perhaps I slept for a short time. The _____ thing I heard was Marian's voffice. She was singing '
[013] t to hear it. I would let him tell me, but not today. _____ week, or the week after, I would go and say goodbye
[014] lems. We were all wonderfully free! That day and the _____ no one visited Brandham Hall, and we did not leave it
[015] want to come again, I'd like to see you. Can you come _____ Sunday at the same time? If you come, I'll try to tel
[016] ill wanted to know the real facts about spooning, but _____ Sunday I planned to be at home with my mother. There
[017] nger. I was not going to take any more messages. The _____ day was Thursday. Mrs Maudsley appeared at breakfast
[018] out there. . The voffices inside were discussing the _____ song. I walked quietly to the door again and probably
[019] d to pull the pages out, but I forgot to do that. The _____ day, Friday, I forgot many other things, too. I reach
[020] otel in Norwich where Marian and I had had lunch. The _____ day" I hired a car and drove to the village. The pla
[021] eason and one reason only. Mister has a gun. But the _____ day he thinks about what Mister said. For the first
[022] ir at the apartment and Claire was sitting in a chair _____ to me. "Where were you today?" I said. "At the hospi
[023] tried. I guess there were a lot of people trying. ;' _____ morning we made breakfast together. We ate in the kit
[024] on Hardy The file on the eviction itself had a number _____ to it. The number meant that only Braden Chance could
[025] , but! did and he didn't like that either. "You were _____ to the guy when he got shot," he said unpleasantly, a
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[001] e was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas in 1955 and studied _____ at the University of Mississippi. He became a lawyer,
[002] he would soon be the oldest ever working partner. The _____ was his life. All -three of his divorced wives could
[003] alled Mordecai Green, the Director of the 14th Street _____ Center, DeVon Hardy had recently lost his job. Then h
[004] a of the city, and drove until I found the 14th Street _____ Center. I parked at -14th and Q, certain that I would
[005] r see the expensive Lexus again. . The 14th. Street _____ Center was in an old, tall, red brick house that had
[006] ut of the snow, and. entered another world. It was a _____ office all right, but there was no expensive furnitur
[007] d soon learn how important Sofia was to the th Street _____ Center. ... "I'm looking for Mordecai Green," I said.
[008] o windows and the desk and floor covered in files and _____ books. "Sit down;' he said. "But you might' get dirty
[009] or. He was forty-four years old, married, and went to _____ school at Duke. There were forty-two files for River
[010] nversations in dierent parts of England, in courts of _____ , and finally in Parliament. During his time as a jour
[011] are important because in 1834 Parliament passed a new _____ called the 'Poor
[012] called the 'Poor _____ '. The
[013] '. The _____ said that there was work for everybody, so people wit
[014] was born in 1955 in Arkansas, in the USA. He studied _____ , and had his own
[015] , and had his own _____ company for nine years. He also worked ill local gov
[016] ilm with Tom Cruise. John Grisham was able to give up _____ and write The Pelican Brief This became another bests
[017] ,' she said at last. 'It's very rare, but I think the _____ can make you tell what you know to a judge.' 'And if
[018] we can get a judge to take Mark into custody. Get the _____ to keep him safe for us.' The others looked intereste
[019] s and you don't answer, then that would be wrong. The _____ is very clear on this. If you know something that wil
[020] , even if you think you're in danger.' 'It's a stupid _____ ,' said Mark. 'Maybe,' said Reggie, 'but we can't chan
[021] seful with his life, Misha in philosophy and Tonya in _____ . They were. all very intelligent and hoped to succeed
[022] o fast, you'll tire yourself,' Yury told his father-in _____ . 'Let's have a rest and a talk. We've cut a lot of wo
[023] the same leader. Everything was touched by this new " _____ ": 'friendships, families, marriages, as well as politi
[024] since 1911, it has had the right under New York State _____ to limit water pollution. But for decades the main go
[025] e saw so many Confederate flags in Oklahoma. And the _____ professor wondered how to keep people from withdrawi
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[001] pressed his fingers under my eyes. It was a terrible _____ . That night, in bed, I cried. I had never been unpopu
[002] troduced yet. My name is Trimingham.' At that time my _____ of social customs was slight. I did not know that I s
[003] , comfortable house. Tea at Brandham was an exciting _____ . I enjoyed it more, perhaps, because I knew Ted's poo
[004] Burgess the result was death. That was partly why my _____ at Brandham was not 'finished'. In my mind there were
[005] d. I had tried to make the gods fight one another! My _____ at Brandham seemed to kill my belief in other people
[006] ought, to explain some of the problems of my Brandham _____ . One thing became clear immediately. Marian had been
[007] ed. One result of this situation was that Dickens had _____ of the unhappy life of many poor people, including ch
[008] us as well as the general one. Now, people intend to _____ a new life, not in books and pictures, not in theory,
[009] ear a sound, like distant thunder, but because of his _____ in the war, he recognised the sound of guns. The trai
[010] s; still, their great joy was their love. Most people _____ love without noticing how remarkable it is, but Yury
[011] ad made her discover life too early and forced her to _____ things that she was not prepared for. Lara . believe
[012] g political science to a young man, because he has no _____ of life, and still follows his emotions. Was he descr
[013] ompared to Alexander, he had the advantage of age-and _____ , and his blood was equally royal. He was popular with
[014] army included a large number of teenage boys with no _____ of battle. To help them, the King also called for th
[015] er representing Monsignor Dunn in both cases, had no _____ trying a felony case. A serious felony case is no pl
[016] ear- old director brought vastly different levels of _____ to this venture. While Mr. Douglas has been making mo
[017] ial self-help group, " and one club member likens the _____ to Weight Watchers or Overeaters Anonymous. "Learni
[018] sh among his favorite subjects and hopes to get some _____ at the school's radio station, WMTH. (The school als
[019] tracted to Harry's because of the supermarket chain's _____ with fresh-food retailing. Supermarkets have seldom
[020] wrought-iron braziers, others float in baskets. The _____ is intoxicating and nearly medieval: The air smells o
[021] a garish lighted billboard advertising 'The Holocaust _____ ,' contains a booth that sells tickets, and has emacia
[022] AD to pick three novels that best embody the American _____ of the Vietnam War, they would be Tim O'Brien's Going
[023] that is, his father and four brothers all shared his _____ of the degradation, privation and occasional brutalit
[024] of his late adolescence to the gradually liberating _____ of college and then to the unshackled milieu of down
[025] zed in the United States... is to have much of one's _____ inadvertently or conveniently omitted from the natio
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[001] ere questions which were carried to him by one of her _____ looks. He always agreed with her plans for the day. I
[002] see no signs of illness. Her look was still sharp and _____ . We did not feel as comfortable as we had felt for th
[003] it for hours and hours, while others looked for more _____ ways to change their history. Pasha and his friends w
[004] the new government? We were excited because it was so _____ and honest. But no political system can stay pure, an
[005] lenders offer brokers and the retail rate available to _____ customers. But if the broker negotiated the mortgage
[006] r an Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider: The steering should be _____ - an extension of man, or woman, to machine. While no
[007] an Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider: The steering should be _____ - an extension of man, or woman, to machine. While no
[008] Bardot to a more innocent Bill and Hillary had come _____ from the altar. Elizabeth Taylor married Mike Todd he
[009] is first volume teases the reader with the occasional _____ address ('I say all this by way of hoping that the li
[010] test-selling Random House title up to the time, had a _____ influence on putting O'Hara on what is regarded as th
[011] rollers lost part of the radar service that helps them _____ arriving and departing flights. While the controllers
[012] n parts of Africa, these aren't accidents. These are _____ consequences of what we are talking about. And the t
[013] , either through reports on progress at school or by _____ correspondence. Our first aim is to provide a basic
[014] ned, though we've been much more happy to leave the _____ teaching of it to a later point in their lives than
[015] that we have left it until a bit later to introduce _____ teaching to them. I: You're a qualified teacher, Bruc
[016] the code for Rome, Italy please? O: Are you dialling _____ ? D: Yes. O: One moment. It's 010 396, followed by t
[017] Doncaster. And there's another at 11:15. B: Is that _____ , or do I have to change? A: That's
[018] , or do I have to change? A: That's _____ . B: What time does it arrive? A: Which one - the 10:
[019] ent. It reflects sunlight on to smaller mirrors that _____ it into the ring, through shutters that fix the day l
[020] me chillier. More power to the centre, that is, more _____ intervention from the Department of Education and Sci
[021] came along, and, in order to communicate it, borrowed _____ from the English. 'Now that's the Japanese word for f
[022] and the militias will know that this kind of violent _____ action has long been in the pipeline. Militia extremi
[023] line. Militia extremists have been openly calling for _____ paramilitary action against the authorities for month
[024] o work from a blueprint notion of what a poem is and _____ their efforts to producing that thing. It also made h
[025] er was quick to douse speculation about a revival of _____ -grant grammar schools. The scheme, however, is a chi
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[001] new people to run government departments for housing, _____ , business and city services. The new leaders had unli
[002] t could have destroyed the state's $10 billion citrus _____ . That problem appears to be under control. But now, s
[003] , state officials face new threats to the agriculture _____ . The first is what an expert on plant viruses, Jane E
[004] that can damage the state's $53 billion agricultural _____ . And an audit found that Florida misused some Federal
[005] alled Harry's in a Hurry that sell " meal solutions, " _____ argot for fresh, ready-to-eat entrees like those made
[006] 465 million here in 1996, making tourism the biggest _____ in Kenya. In mid-August, hundreds of vacationers from
[007] se. Speak the truth. Tourism is the world's largest _____ . Today, Americans spend almost $400 billion a year o
[008] ne jobs in the United States. Tourism is the leading _____ in 37 states. But it is a two-edged sword; in many pa
[009] decade, stock clubs of all sorts have become a growth _____ , as the recent rapid growth of the National Associati
[010] ed years. Using the materials and techniques of light _____ , Ebner produced series after series of glossy, gorge
[011] Esprit, a brand that was once the envy of the fashion _____ , today live for such customer affirmation as they wor
[012] prize, the America's Cup. Now a bona fide captain of _____ , Turner rarely skippers small craft anymore; meanwhi
[013] She provided a shot in the arm to the British fashion _____ , and early on attended public functions garbed only
[014] t in recent years languished as its mainstay seafood _____ was battered by bad weather and strict new fishing re
[015] ous still thrive in the surrounding bay, the seafood _____ is no longer the sole basis of the economy. It was
[016] erviews with executives, and reviews of economic and _____ trends. Decisions are ultimately made in accordance
[017] she says, their decisions are driven by market value, _____ group and whether a stock is included in a major inde
[018] for vacationing in America. The Recreational Vehicle _____ Association reports that in 1996 RV sales reached a
[019] ntal market, and you've got an estimated $16 billion _____ . Recreational vehicles have come a long way since the
[020] s. The huge consolidation that has swept through the _____ in recent years - and that has seen Chase Manhattan m
[021] zards and polluted water. And people in the building _____ said that the cost of having a disposal professional
[022] the lower Pocomoke. And he plugged the local seafood _____ , which has been reporting sagging sales in the face
[023] reputation to protect. POWERS THAT be in the film _____ do not take kindly to Washington pols who lecture the
[024] knowing that his large investment in the state's hog _____ earned him the 'Boss Hog' label from some of his Nor
[025] r. The world of air travel has developed into a huge _____ . The airports themselves are remarkable places: Pari