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[001] fair and his light- coloured, wavy hair grew long and _____ on his neck. He was in India, and proud of the past
[002] ticky brown rain of malathion, a pesticide sprayed by _____ -flying aircraft to kill the Mediterranean fruit flies
[003] al police estimate of 7,000 marchers was deliberately _____ . Mr. Sharpton, speaking at the weekly rally at his o
[004] junk's junk has been huge: at $9 billion, issuance of _____ -rated junk is running nearly 50 percent higher than la
[005] emerging- market countries are included, issuance of _____ -rated debt has nearly doubled, to more than $12 bill
[006] solved that mystery. The Redskins will still run the _____ -risk, run-oriented attack that features Terry Allen a
[007] Vias and Mr. (Mirza) Rahman are among a fortunate few _____ - income people in New York City who are beneficiaries
[008] so that 20 percent of the apartments be set aside for _____ - income tenants while the remaining 80 percent are re
[009] to replace retiring cartoonists, rely increasingly on _____ -cost syndicated cartoons or simply go out of business
[010] the San Gabriels. Maybe you have seen it yourself on _____ -flying, southbound airline approaches into LAX- meand
[011] udio review. We can read a lot of griping about the _____ estate of singing today, compared to various putative
[012] ering from the broader American trend of cynicism and _____ expectations of public officials. Wright's vision
[013] ity Aug. 14, Hickman was freezing in temperatures as _____ as 30 degrees 2,600 miles north, on the Tree River 3
[014] us Bureau counted too few residents on the Hill, the _____ -income neighborhood on the south side of this state
[015] intraday high of 2. 8630 to the dollar from a record _____ of 2. 9650 to the dollar earlier in the day. By the c
[016] one thing I didn't like, actually, and that was the _____ ceilings everywhere, especially in the kitchen. L: Ye
[017] e of work, and I failed my "O"-level exams with very _____ marks, so I guess I am locked in to this job which I
[018] as not a smoker and also I was sticking to a fairly _____ animal-fat diet. But one person I knew well did die
[019] rs, and there's never any problem. The crime rate is _____ . I don't know anyone who's had a break-in in their a
[020] ild huts to protect themselves from temperatures as _____ as minus 40 degrees Centigrade. To measure temperatu
[021] s 40 degrees Centigrade. To measure temperatures as _____ as minus 40, they will need special thermometers, sin
[022] ns are fast and comfortable. The danger level is very _____ . There are no annoying traffic lights to sit through.
[023] lunching in a new restaurant, I ordered the special _____ - calorie meal from the menu. I've been eating
[024] - calorie meal from the menu. I've been eating _____ -fat foods for a year now, in an effort to try and los
[025] ust couldn't let you eat that pie after you'd had the _____ - calorie slimmer's lunch'. Then, the next evening som
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[001] anywhere in the house. 'He's probably gone out for a _____ ,' he thought. Yury lit the fire, picked up a bucket a
[002] finally arrived, not only alive but able to ride and _____ , they cried with happiness. They thought that Alexande
[003] of sports or politics. "Before the quiz started, I'd _____ in and be one of five people here all night," said Rob
[004] anford and Son. " What makes Urkel run (or at least _____ peculiarly in a bent-kneed crouch)? He wasn't even s
[005] ferent course has energized the organization. People _____ the corridors of Weeb Ewbank Hall with a more purpose
[006] As Bill Bradley headed to the shore on Friday for the _____ at the beach that has been a New Jersey tradition si
[007] takes readers on a long, eventful, sometimes harrowing _____ from a Confederate hospital in Raleigh to the mounta
[008] the Confederate cause after Petersburg. Inman's is a _____ on the wild side, through a semifrontier society on t
[009] ride, Michael Jackson's moonwalk to Neil Armstrong's _____ on the moon. It is a giddy guided tour of pop cultur
[010] engulfs your face at the discretion of the wind. On a _____ to the Kings Creek waterfall, I spent most of the tre
[011] named for an Egyptian saint, Onuphrius, is a joy to _____ . The aptly named Bluffs Beach, part of San Onofre Sta
[012] ed as one more obstacle. To get to school you had to _____ through The Tunnel. Unless you caught a ride, a rare
[013] r excursion fares) are discounted from full, one-way, _____ -up fares. They require a Saturday-night stay and are
[014] other day the Comets are not on the road, Cooper will _____ out the door and go home to her mother, Mary Cobbs,
[015] ht it, we'd have to drive to the station, we couldn't _____ . L: That wouldn't matter. You can
[016] . L: That wouldn't matter. You can _____ in summer if it's a nice day. It's a lovely
[017] in summer if it's a nice day. It's a lovely _____ across the park. J: I'll tell you one thing I didn't
[018] not the way I play it. It's a good excuse to go for a _____ , and from time to time you have to hit a ball into
[019] erfume, and believe me the boys notice it when they _____ by. What can I do? *** Q: My mother won't let me w
[020] t traffic is still a problem. It is often better to _____ and feel the atmosphere of the pretty little streets.
[021] fer to deliver the bag to your house. Otherwise, you _____ off with your little load. In a supermarket, you cho
[022] Sunday. I: Yes. H: After lunch, maybe we'll go for a _____ on the beach, or play tennis, or go for a run, you kn
[023] the shade to talk and watch all the beautiful people _____ by! Or you can sit in the sun and get a tan - get a
[024] J: This doesn't mean that I travel less, it means I _____ more often. When I do my shopping, I always
[025] more often. When I do my shopping, I always _____ now. I use public transport when I can, usually goi
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[001] ple into supermarkets, and not just to tighten abs or _____ customers to stir-fry. Once they're inside, the groce
[002] would be thrilled, and maybe the episode would help _____ him the concept that finders are not always keepers.
[003] grandmothers are. They cook really good. They try to _____ you what they learned in their days.' With that kind o
[004] Johnnetta Cole, who resigned after 10 years and will _____ at Emory University. Manley takes the helm of a schoo
[005] wonderful power had not helped him at all. Except to _____ him that it was impossible to please his wife, and h
[006] , but I work with a theatre group at the weekend. We _____ dance to groups of children. I'm living with anothe
[007] r for my dad or local firms. In the future I want to _____ , or go to live in Scandinavia. People there are aware
[008] h for the intellectual and motor skills they claim to _____ as for the warmth of the carers. But nursery or playg
[009] up with the ageist, sexist British job scene, went to _____ children in Romania and 'loved it'. TEFL is often se
[010] arn in middle age how to type; the VCR has failed to _____ many of that generation how to set the date and time
[011] rman and Spanish are enormously important; why do we _____ German to a quarter of the numbers we
[012] German to a quarter of the numbers we _____ French to? The balance of language in schools is tota
[013] -------- IND 12 APR 95 / British rely on schools to _____ morals: Judith Judd reports on an international surv
[014] anywhere else. The French are the most confident they _____ traditional subjects well while the Swedes have the m
[015] rial faculty offers two- and three-term courses that _____ essential office skills - shorthand, typing, audio ty
[016] ames Valley sees its purpose in these exchanges as to _____ English to foreigners such that they can get by for
[017] e'). The domestic and social adventures of the girls _____ them, like episodes in Pilgrim's Progress, to be kind
[018] ction with other schools or colleges? Does the school _____ the new General National Vocational Qualifications (G
[019] n line with inflation. 'Teachers know their job is to _____ whatever comes in front of them, but large classes a
[020] nd that their members send children home rather than _____ in over-crowded classrooms. 'We have a very hard bat
[021] promote teaching and learning, to enable academics to _____ more effectively. 'Expansion was carried out with no
[022] placed increasingly on the students. But in order to _____ themselves effectively they need a lot of support fr
[023] king girl from a farm. I liked her, and I promised to _____ her the rules of the house. These rules were, of cour
[024] she could not sing or draw or sew. Perhaps she could _____ reading? No. When she read aloud, she had to cough be
[025] spelling was terrible! No. There was nothing she could _____ the children of Cranford, I decided, except quiet go
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[001] Christopher Corbett Baltimore writer... makes Jack a _____ A personality with cardiovascular problems desperately
[002] that shows visitors lining up to enter a boxcar of a _____ that transported Holocaust victims to gassing centers
[003] to 1995 featured a central character puffing on some _____ of tobacco, according to one study, as do five of th
[004] e intelligent and have lots of friends - but not the _____ I'd like. What should I do? *** Q: BULLIES AT SCHO
[005] have no qualifications or certificates for any other _____ of work, and I failed my "O"-level exams with very l
[006] me out from London for the day on tour buses. So the _____ of police work I do is not catching criminals or chas
[007] country with ugly bits and urgent problems of every _____ . They imagine England has no poor people, no traffic
[008] Real Causes of the Divorce-Rate Rise' - you know the _____ of thing. *** She's absolutely adorable. I think s
[009] games, a lake with little boats for hire, etc, every _____ of entertainment possible - and the children really e
[010] Instead, they had returned to planting the traditional _____ of corn, with its reduced production. Was this wise?
[011] eans a lot to me, because I've always been an active _____ of person. I: So the early mornings don't bother yo
[012] e solutions: either to provide more lifts of the same _____ , or to replace the existing lifts by faster ones, or
[013] ribe your attitude toward it. Are you happy with this _____ of work? Do you work with pleasant people? Would you
[014] n to do them? LD: Well, of course that's true. These _____ of arrangements do suit a lot of women. But what we'r
[015] he was bubbling with vitality. She used lots of hippy- _____ language and wore the kind of clothes you can only w
[016] ion of people have had to learn in middle age how to _____ ; the VCR has failed to teach many of that generation
[017] ort, now completed, will call for a stern new military- _____ command structure within prisons and the prison servi
[018] whether you are sending your child to the equivalent _____ of school. Debunking modern myths 1) Beware the bant
[019] Bigger classes are also out of the question with the _____ of children the school caters for. Unemployment in Ca
[020] n black and white and the man's got to be a big model _____ with big tits and the baby's got to be a pretty one.
[021] That last Nexus-6 female, Pris Stratton, is the same _____ as I am. Didn't you notice the description? She may
[022] til I die, he thought, or until they invent a Nexus-7 _____ . And now the other two. Mercer protected me, he reali
[023] . 'He wanted someone young, you know, a dark Spanish _____ like me. I was too thin, that was the only problem.'
[024] ? But why?' 'You just told me you're not the suicidal _____ , Edward. But you'd be surprised at your recent beha
[025] saw it. It fooled the clerk though. Not the suicidal _____ ? All those people will swear you are, Edward.' 'Wha
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[001] Alexander the Great shaped the world that we live in _____ . Chapter 1 The Greek World On his black warhorse Bu
[002] were not only found in the area that we call Greece _____ . Greek people lived in coastal areas all around the
[003] kilometres - the same distance is called a 'marathon' _____ in memory of that great run. When King Darius died, h
[004] and were ruled by the people. Unlike our -democracies _____ the ordinary people made all the political decisions.
[005] ys of great writers like Euripides are still performed _____ . Other forms of literature were popular too. The Ilia
[006] nd the work of Plato and Aristotle is still important _____ . The Greeks also made many discoveries in mathematics
[007] the other one was. Such confusion is hard to imagine _____ , in a world where cameras in space can be used to spy
[008] of Alexander's siege can still be seen. Tyre exists _____ , but it is not on an island. The coastline was changed
[009] Princess of Wales, was killed shortly after midnight _____ in an automobile accident in a tunnel by the Seine. Th
[010] this month and had been expected to return to London _____ to be with her two sons, the Princes William and Har
[011] nearly 5 percent on Friday. Opposition lawmakers _____ defied a boycott by the powerful Government party and
[012] e presidency, were empty. The legislature that opened _____ is the first one in seven decades in which the PRI d
[013] tary of State, Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, _____ accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel
[014] are the stock in trade for naturalists and explorers _____ , impersonal furnishings that are also reassuringly a
[015] to decide whether what passes for a college education _____ is worth the price, and whether society can afford de
[016] ion more available, and it has succeeded remarkably. _____ two-thirds of all high- school graduates go on to co
[017] ss city on Aug. 28, 1897, and resolved 100 years ago _____ to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Empero
[018] 13-6 comeback victory against the Baltimore Orioles _____ , pitcher Pete Harnisch, who recovered from a long bo
[019] nders for. The Liberty locker room was quiet before _____ 's game and silent afterward. The players did not hav
[020] moment (2,000 feet or above) they pull the ripcord. _____ , the venerable structure, known as "The New Old State
[021] owever, (John) Gunther's observation remains as true _____ as it was when he made it in 1947. The only part I t
[022] ortal Beauty: Artists Capture Miss America, " opening _____ at the Noyes. Ms. Pover describes the exhibition as "
[023] f bed, ready for the funeral she had already planned. _____ , the 36-year-old Philadelphia woman rides a bike. Sh
[024] who cared for them, felt as they faced the disease. _____ , in many parts of the world, the AIDS epidemic burns
[025] s may be the most vibrant force in American education _____ . Perhaps what we learned can inspire D. C. residents
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[001] hat he engaged in questionable financial dealings. In _____ , he has been faulted for hiring a woman who had plead
[002] its restoration. The "Danae " had always engendered a _____ affection. The story of how Zeus came to Danae in th
[003] , over the viciousness of the training scenes. In one _____ scene, an instructor slams his fist into Ms. Moore's
[004] a lot of other poetry didn't - and in a way that made _____ sense in a place where I, a pale, unathletic New Yor
[005] tyle of her new friends - and to one rugged friend in _____ . Mixed book review. MY SUMMER VACATION was a kind o
[006] mers through the Southeast -having a choffice and no _____ reason to pick BellSouth. Perhaps the scariest news i
[007] and I see quite a lot of them. There's one couple in _____ that I've met, same age as me, and we've got very fr
[008] , Why can't you sort out your own problems? about a _____ client. Be honest with yourself and the others in yo
[009] n to hospital, or whether, given the nature of their _____ accident, the victim should be left alone. I: Yes, c
[010] specifically in a moment? Dr C: Yes. I: Is there one _____ kind of accident where generally we get it wrong, w
[011] geography, history, and so on, but sometimes with a _____ Japanese way of approaching them. For example, in ma
[012] n advance. A: Right, that sounds fair. Are there any _____ house rules, you know, that I've got to keep to? L: H
[013] en,' because I know the copier will be 'down' at that _____ moment. Of course, sometimes it's because someone's
[014] o urgent business. We weren't even going anywhere in _____ . And just think - I was voted the 'Safe Driver of th
[015] Lynn Dermott works for the Low Pay Unit. One of her _____ concerns is the working conditions of 'home- workers'
[016] ly two of the largely unaddressed issues, but deserve _____ attention, especially since one most concerns the st
[017] n English degree you're not qualified for anything in _____ . Doing a general degree was putting the career off. N
[018] pply the available kit. But our new universities, in _____ , are beginning to find ways of cutting costs and stil
[019] ingfield had the idea of selling all the space for a _____ race to one sponsor - so every jockey would wear the
[020] at becomes the focus instead of taking time to help a _____ child,' says Arthur De Caux, deputy general secretary
[021] rprise that Belgian business schools have developed a _____ expertise in this field. The Solvay Business School a
[022] ents wanted to report on the poor teaching methods of _____ teachers, the inappropriate behaviour of some, the us
[023] o unconstitutionally disarm the people of America. In _____ , the FBI and the ATF officers (from the Bureau of Alc
[024] s to select pupils, not on academic ability, but for _____ talents. The Government is backing plans for technolo
[025] en all of a sudden he's arrested by the contents of a _____ document. I use the verb advisedly, for from that mom
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[001] erself at Yury's feet and grabbed his legs. 'Please, _____ to him, Yury. He's practical and experienced. I realis
[002] istening. They wanted him to leave so that they could _____ to each other. Finally, they showed him to the door.
[003] te to lose.' 'I don't understand you, Komarovsky. You _____ as if I have agreed to come with you. Go and good luc
[004] that we'll be separated soon one way or another. I'll _____ to her.' 'You should come, too, you know.' 'Yes, I kn
[005] lace for a young prince to grow. HP. 151exander could _____ to people who had lived in Egypt, and made friends w
[006] oldiers in the Persian army were mostly Greek. People _____ of Alexander's 'Greeks' defeating the 'Persians', but
[007] s. He had a high fever, and after a week he could not _____ . On the tenth day, his court and army were given the
[008] adquarters here, "The Fabulous Sports Babe," a radio _____ show host, used to announce that she was broadcasting
[009] t this year, with the Abner Louima brutality case the _____ not only of West Indians but of the entire city, the
[010] expected to take on a more political tone. And on the _____ radio programs that serve as a sounding board for th
[011] than just an opportunity for the women to gather and _____ about stocks. Ms. Felenstein describes it as a "finan
[012] dog-related laws that already exist. Third, when we _____ about passing laws to seize and destroy dogs that "sp
[013] s Beethoven is Beethoven. In general company, if you _____ of a 'Ninth Symphony,' it will be assumed that you ar
[014] Cannons, they think about their decision often, but _____ about it infrequently. It is simply something they mu
[015] p its model AIDS prevention program in which inmates _____ straight to other inmates about the perils of dirty
[016] w life-who return music to the wood. * If wood could _____ , this maple Rena Weisshaar holds in her hands would
[017] to think I must be stupid or something. Who should I _____ to? I think my brain just isn't big enough to hold ve
[018] see any improvement. *** Presenter: This week we _____ to people about the world's most loved car - the Vol
[019] as her weekly meeting with the Prime Minister. They _____ about world news and have a drink, perhaps a gin and
[020] d Micky Mouse and Goofy, come up to you and offer to _____ , which the kids thought was great. You could see the
[021] , our emotions, and it can be even more difficult to _____ about them. As they say, 'It's a thin line between l
[022] uffer more than we care to realize. Parents need to _____ honestly to the children, preferably together. I: Do
[023] nglishman in America is respected. Everyone wants to _____ to him. We're inquisitive, we love his accent and hi
[024] ent, the victim should be left alone. I: Yes, can we _____ about road accidents more specifically in a moment?
[025] there are a lot of accidents we haven't had time to _____ about. But do you think it's worthwhile for the gene
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[001] l strength, and that outrage about the incident would _____ him to victory in the Democratic primary on Sept. 9.
[002] o believe she is tough enough to master kung fu or to _____ out the sometimes heart- stopping stunts in "Xena: W
[003] that already has its share. Louisiana is a "right to _____ " state, where citizens can wear concealed weapons as
[004] ndian outlets are two- pronged and ungrounded, "is to _____ with you a seven-foot copper pole. ") I then bought
[005] e of Nusrat Khan, 'Nusrat told Rahat, 'I want you to _____ on the family tradition. You're the only one I've tau
[006] crime was committed and that elected representatives _____ a greater burden than average citizens to conduct th
[007] he practical matter of finding a pack large enough to _____ books, tapes, lunch, computer disks, money, makeup an
[008] have to lift fairly heavy loads up off the floor and _____ them about - flour, metal pans and trays, and other
[009] Several times every morning, when the bread is made I _____ it all out to the delivery van. Sometimes I
[010] it all out to the delivery van. Sometimes I _____ heavy loads up to the next floor on a ladder! This is
[011] cious lady for our Queen and ruler. We pray she may _____ on for a good many years to come. Many countries have
[012] r citizens with a machine-readable passport that will _____ with it the threat of global surveillance of innocent
[013] n trust him. Bobbies are very polite and don't even _____ guns! You don't need to respect them like you do the
[014] ates. But I don't like wasting my time shopping, so I _____ as much as I can and visit a supermarket only when I
[015] one case? B: Yes. A: Do you have any hand luggage or _____ -on luggage? B: Just this one case. A: That's fine. W
[016] t elevators,' said Mr Shuzimo's assistant, 'that can _____ more than any van or lorry'. What about fires? What i
[017] B: Yes please, I've bought more groceries than I can _____ ! A: Well, throw them in the back seat and get in. *
[018] uld put more money into public transport. Cars often _____ just one person. If the public transport system work
[019] ort system works, more people will use it. If trains _____ more people, the roads won't be so crowded, and cars
[020] ity in 1994 that Continuing Education courses were to _____ accreditation for students, and that we were now to p
[021] NFER-Nelson. The Larr test takes about 25 minutes to _____ out on a group of four children, and asks them to sh
[022] ship of 3 million. Their first platform, the Right to _____ Arms, harps back to the posse tradition and the conce
[023] s constitution. People who have inalienable rights to _____ weapons and to freedom of self-determination will in
[024] uld not ask the German army and its officer corps to _____ out such extermination.' Meanwhile, the pictures are
[025] rag-tag army must be vetted by the authorities, must _____ only his own hunting gun, must obey the instructions
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[001] r clothes," said Joan Darrow, who had agreed to a one- _____ consultation with a peek in my closet as a perk. A st
[002] hich I wanted to reform my wardrobe - elicited a half- _____ infomercial about Ms. Darrow's history of impeccable
[003] y area are playing host to formal trivia quizzes: two- _____ team games, complete with live emcee, public address
[004] quiz night, armies of young men and women arrive an _____ early to commandeer tables; bar business has increase
[005] olden era is just about over for "Mr. Show, " a half- _____ burst of pop-cultural commentary and cutting- edge i
[006] . Upwards of 20,000 people pelted one another for an _____ - and, before and after, bought food and drinks and a
[007] elyhood " ... If you're a workfare mother, $5. 15 an _____ . If you're a school custodian, $10. 35 an
[008] . If you're a school custodian, $10. 35 an _____ . If you're a nursing home aide, $8 to $15 an
[009] . If you're a nursing home aide, $8 to $15 an _____ . If you're with U. P. S. full time, $17 an
[010] . If you're with U. P. S. full time, $17 an _____ . If you're a new public school teacher, $24,000 a year
[011] bland, even Friday night, normally a major witching _____ at the Open. The unseeded Venus Williams - "I'm tall
[012] minute as they fall at a rate of almost 200 miles an _____ . Then, at a defining moment (2,000 feet or above) the
[013] ellout crowd remained, some staying for more than an _____ after the game. 'This has been a thrill of a summert
[014] ut on it, often working through the night, pulling 16- _____ shifts for days if the problem is big enough. Bria
[015] across mammoth Los Angeles County in the span of an _____ or more drive from the human seals on short boards pa
[016] e Fairlie-Poplar Historic District into a lively a 24- _____ community. To date, the scene remains just that -fan
[017] the airport's local service was restored in about one _____ . The ruling resulted from a convoluted turf battle
[018] and a curiosity second, as she popped her 110-mile-an- _____ serves to upset eighth-seeded Anke Huber, 6-3, 6-4. I
[019] member very well flying over the Amazonian jungle for _____ after
[020] after _____ after
[021] after _____ and not a sign of the hand of man beneath me, just th
[022] t least 8 1/2 hours work each day (I'm allowed a 1/2 _____ break). The work itself is not pleasant. I stand up
[023] g thing the minute my shift is over. I only earn 1 an _____ , which is awful. My employer refuses to even discuss
[024] earns $2 billion a year, that is $229 thousand every _____ , from it. And the beauty is that there are so few p
[025] oughly double the amount of fuel. Because of the five _____ time difference between the USA and Britain, it is p