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[001] thought. While he talked you wouldn't trade being a _____ Tennessee farmer for being anything else in the whol
[002] by all odds the prettiest and brightest young woman _____ of the Allegheny Mountains, and John was surely one
[003] a movie melodrama that concerns the attempts of a _____ German politician to woo a plaster cast of the Apoll
[004] ury. Simon was hiking across a huge glacier in south- _____ Austria near the Italian border when he stumbled upo
[005] products my mother buys for the house. (Respondent is _____ Indian-American female). It is important to note,
[006] rized the French and German speaking peoples to the _____ and east respectively of the linguistic frontier. In
[007] een 1979 and 1989. Demand for ivory in Japan and the _____ forced up ivory prices; high prices created an incen
[008] round Earth, electrons to the east and protons to the _____ . The strongest diffuse auroras are found on the post
[009] National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, _____ Virginia, Dr. Frank Drake (now Chairman of the Board
[010] nment to support fears of subversive activity on the _____ Coast. The rewriting of history to support a politica
[011] ning at a police station in a Roman Catholic part of _____ Belfast as about 100 people threw gasoline bombs at t
[012] y the Irish Republican Army, which has support in the _____ Belfast area of Ballymurphy, where the violence brok
[013] ther Italian- American Governors. As honors go, many _____ Virginians say this one is wholly undeserved. An annu
[014] in a Random House guidebook ranked the University of _____ Virginia as the No. 1 party school in the country. S
[015] s, after Playboy magazine rated party schools and put _____ Virginia at the top of the list. So when the Random
[016] of the list. So when the Random House guidebook named _____ Virginia No. 1 for fun, "everybody's response around
[017] e was, 'Where have I been?'" said Josh Greene, 23, a _____ Virginia senior and city editor of the university ne
[018] ayor Rudolph W. Giuliani plans to march in his fifth _____ Indian American Day parade tomorrow, taking part in
[019] the Abner Louima brutality case the talk not only of _____ Indians but of the entire city, the annual celebratio
[020] e as a sounding board for the concerns of New York's _____ Indians, there have been repeated calls for the Mayo
[021] 8 eye shadows). Sarah (Lewkowicz) lives on the Upper _____ Side and graduated in June from a program for gifted
[022] l Committee, and that all of them were made from his _____ Wing office. They offer a new glimpse at the mechanic
[023] by the towns of Avanos in the north, Nevsehir in the _____ and Urgup in the east. Visitors often base themselves
[024] illages dapple its rolling hills, bounded on east and _____ by the Berkshires and the Catskills. I'd been hearin
[025] ew Orphan Asylum you recall was built in 1884 on the _____ side of Amsterdam Avenue, between 136th and 138th S
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[001] oad river gleaming in its moontrack like an enormous _____ mirror and all the sounds of the night, so poetic. W
[002] ner of the long low dimly lit funeral parlor, on its _____ shining surface the sheaf of white roses I had order
[003] tter with it"? He had put on the gray jacket and the _____ -gray slacks and the fawn-colored shirt he had worn t
[004] h her attention. Changing his clothes, he put on his _____ -blue flannel suit, and laid away the gray jacket wit
[005] raged looks of those whom she might approach. In her _____ , scornful fashion she proceeded to her destination,
[006] ns on her shoulders while she stood as unchanged, as _____ and motionless as ever, her eyes open and staring at
[007] bright, multicolored legion, their hair flying like _____ banners, only the thunder, the roll of drums, the ma
[008] ad never been here at this hour. She felt as if some _____ , totally unfamiliar shape would clutch at her arm; b
[009] easily now, and more slowly, until she could see the _____ glisten of water beneath her. If I ever committ
[010] e recognized his jacket and trousers. The fabric was _____ ; the stains weren't too apparent; and there were his
[011] turned back from the stairway and looked at her. His _____ brows, which had been lowered in anger, smoothed. "P
[012] ing fearless by not turning on the bathroom light? A _____ bathroom can be pretty scary, and he'd creep back to
[013] n to the bottom of the sea. She made me welcome. Her _____ cool caresses were sweeter than any woman's; the man
[014] nd a glass. There wasn't much light in the blue _____ , but I could see her well. No child, this tart, she
[015] , given them up to the flames. Then he sped from the _____ basement and returned to his room and cried.
[016] wind and dropped the biwa into the water. It was so _____ that he didn't see it hit the water and the noisy ru
[017] l in worship of Fudo, the god of fire". Richard's _____ eyes came up and seemed for the tiniest moment to re
[018] ds like cool satin, and my hands, usually tanned and _____ , were pale beside it, and I asked it where the fire
[019] ill effeminate face, and his eyelashes were long and _____ and brushlike, and his eyes were blue. He waited the
[020] him. David had the same gray eyes, high cheekbones, _____ hair and a certain rugged ugliness. Height, 6'. Weig
[021] s the task of the playwright to throw light into the _____ corners of the human heart. Like almost everybody el
[022] s of unnatural breathing. Though the film is set in a _____ , desolate, rain- swept New York City of the near fut
[023] is the central dramatic question of Alice Hoffman's _____ and wonderful new novel, Here on Earth. At the heart
[024] t. The woman seized my arm and pulled me through the _____ entryway into the courtyard... [where] wood was stac
[025] work, Gober's installation is symmetrical, serene and _____ , except for theatrical lighting designed by Jennifer
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[001] rst. This was one time I'd have gladly broken my own _____ , but habit was too strong. "Hey"! Her voice was f
[002] hocolate icing. (Sometimes I think you need only one _____ for cooking: if you can't put garlic in it, put choc
[003] in the denominator of a fraction. The reason for this _____ is unclear, but it is nevertheless a
[004] is unclear, but it is nevertheless a _____ . The way to get rid of a square root is to multiply i
[005] mming, and has applications such as specification of _____ preference in legal reasoning and preference view up
[006] it learning have shown that individuals exposed to a _____ - governed environment often learn to exploit 'rules'
[007] tainment, and physical location). A quick-and-dirty _____ of thumb: you can usually recognize a preposition by
[008] they can - - by legal means -- to ensure that Peres' _____ is short- lived. In the wake of the national expressi
[009] ction of a positive left hand rotation. The right hand _____ is applied similarly using the right hand in place of
[010] tainment, and physical location). A quick-and-dirty _____ of thumb: you can usually recognize a preposition by
[011] l they can -- by legal means -- to ensure that Peres' _____ is short-lived. In the wake of the national expressio
[012] ction of a positive left hand rotation. The right hand _____ is applied similarly using the right hand in place of
[013] finite number of states) to another, on the basis of a _____ that takes into account: (1) the current state and (2
[014] chine, published a cartoon showing a strongman, "Boss _____ , " swinging a hammer marked "Favoritism and Privileg
[015] . And Lucic, accepted into this tournament despite a _____ preventing girls from playing in Grand Slam events u
[016] and, over time, peace was restored with one unspoken _____ : Business was not to be discussed. She chose two matc
[017] ints from riders, MARTA is stepping up its assault on _____ violators, and on Monday will begin making arrests a
[018] summer of India and Pakistan's freedom from British _____ , perhaps the starkest example of Indo chic can be fo
[019] icketed in Clinton, N. C. But she and the D. C. home _____ marchers have more in common than you might think: B
[020] e to the jury in Hager's trial. Dixon is expected to _____ next week. The Redskins stadium about to open in Land
[021] e what I call The Law of Unintended Results: Any law, _____ , regulation, or sanction conceived with Industrial Ag
[022] ewer, more versatile offspring. ’Ä¢ 8 Japan Japanese _____ As they lead the world into the twenty-first centur
[023] s made no promises to Nintendo, although he does not _____ out the possibility of developing educational softwar
[024] be added. The important thing is that the Thirty Year _____ is in force and that we can respond to developing per
[025] Outram's is very much the exception rather than the _____ . ’Ä¢ Architecture Page 17 891129 ARCHITECTURE / Good
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[001] d go out and do the work she wanted. She worked very _____ . There was a refugee who was able to come here becau
[002] then". "I will .... you, also .... don't work too _____ ". It was an automatic phrase; as he crossed throu
[003] e let dead fish lie on the beaches till the fish got _____ as rocks; then they scraped off the mold and made fi
[004] day. John was good at his job. It probably wasn't _____ for him to keep his nose to the grindstone with noth
[005] Bobbie will take the job as his just reward and work _____ at it; Poor John will take it as a miracle and have
[006] ver to make sure everything was all right". "I'm- _____ to wake up", she faltered. She didn't look over thir
[007] ete were really getting serious, I'd have to do some _____ thinking. Should I tell him the truth about Alice? D
[008] er away and ate a tremendous amount of cold ham, hot _____ -boiled eggs and hot garlic bread. As we ate, we talk
[009] his head and Eddie frowned. Suddenly his voice grew _____ . "What the hell do you think baseball is? You're not
[010] l. I saw then, too, the stake driven straight and _____ into the plowed soil, through something there where
[011] for him at Hanford. But then, he hadn't studied very _____ . Getting elected president of the student body took
[012] padding it a bit, Anne", he said. "But you know how _____ it is to get a boy into a good college. He has to ha
[013] ions as to "wipe out" all but a fraction of my poor, _____ -come-by savings. I was also publicly reprimanded, dr
[014] rious for their evasive double-entendre. It would be _____ to find anything more equivocal than: "I cannot reco
[015] eman came by. He was very rude. Arlene had a _____ voice, too, this time. The policeman's eyes rather p
[016] ed at loudest. She would sometimes even get a little _____ on you, she took you so seriously. But not
[017] on you, she took you so seriously. But not _____ for very long. Just long enough to make you feel imp
[018] emands of the larger group. Privacy, for example, is _____ to find. However, there are negative features to the
[019] the creation and communication of popular culture is _____ to ignore. However, many people fail to appreciate ho
[020] an American male in his early twenties.) I find it _____ to break away from the things I've been using since I
[021] n wrong sizes, that are too high or too low, or with _____ surfaces or edges; but avoiding these design flaws
[022] hereby removing even the dirt that has accumulated in _____ -to-reach places in the objects. 10 Ultrasonics are
[023] or crumpled leaves to soak up drinking water that is _____ to get to. 5 The question of chimpanzee intelligence
[024] celebrated every 1000 days instead (after all it is a _____ pace to keep up). A decimal anniversary can be a fun
[025] u've ever managed the company E-mail, you'll know how _____ it can be with all those POP3 and IMAP clients. GLWeb
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[001] r. His body pitched back and forth on the bench. His _____ teeth were missing. I shuddered and backed out of
[002] ir run out and listen to the rain and see the mud in _____ of the headlights, waiting for you, for your new spe
[003] wrong, and so I followed her up to the turnaround in _____ of the house. Dolly Engisch was waiting there on
[004] nights ago that they had been standing together in _____ of the house looking at the moon-washed river? Their
[005] n, I know they wouldn't have dreamed of saying it in _____ of me. My folks and my faith protected me from thing
[006] The Anniston manager came right up to the dugout in _____ of Mike. His face was flushed. "Deegan", the mana
[007] ere. It lay half in the furrow and half out, and the _____ wheels had rolled nearly up to it when I put in the
[008] es early. Martin was standing a few feet from the _____ door. He swung around, eyes toward the bedroom, some
[009] down and "thrown out". Again, my name was on all the _____ pages. I was, it seemed, persona non grata in every
[010] d would go on which he would hang his hand tools. In _____ of it would be his workbench. The old nightmare w
[011] ghan my dog customarily slept on, you lammed out the _____ door, considerately leaving it open for neighbors to
[012] grow up, young girls and boys spend as many hours in _____ of a television as they do in school. Indeed, childre
[013] irds of evening meals in Britain are now consumed in _____ of the television. Food avoidances and taboos: the `y
[014] itories, social males "cooperate" in offering a united _____ against egg eating catfish. 8 But social bluegills
[015] ng that used to usher the sitcom characters from the _____ step of their neo- colonial dream house directly into
[016] ne and Ward Cleaver happily installed outside their _____ door as they see the boys off to school, June the com
[017] ence of his players, screamed at assistant coaches in _____ of players, wondered aloud whether his team has any h
[018] mounts to a partial vacuum in the building until the _____ door is opened and fresh air can rush in. The problem
[019] Jan Savitt and Johnny Watson, Mr. Yellen concocted a _____ pageish plot to evoke a toujours-gai Paris of the 192
[020] teachers to selecting textbooks - as they move to the _____ line in Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew's assault on a
[021] hot to death yesterday evening outside the monumental _____ entrance to Union Station in a sudden and brazen att
[022] tomy. 'Beatrix Potter Boiled Squirrels,' screamed the _____ - page headline; the story claimed that 'Potter had a
[023] k, its shoulder strap lengthened and looped under the _____ and rear roof rack edges; smaller leather bag with w
[024] of mysterydom. We took snapshots of Dorothy Sayers's _____ door in Oxford and roamed the moors where the hound
[025] ts, sang the old songs. The marchers put one foot in _____ of the other, but in a larger sense they-and the res
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[001] ng low dimly lit funeral parlor, on its dark shining _____ the sheaf of white roses I had ordered. I knelt, jus
[002] ss of gauze, suddenly moist over his cheekbones. The _____ , however, was perfectly white. He was drinking
[003] ck formation from which water flows naturally to the _____ . The water may come directly from the spring itself
[004] st and North Africa crosses international borders as _____ flows such as rivers. For example, over 95 percent
[005] s water resources flow from other countries. Shared _____ water is critical to national economies, especially
[006] waves in particular patterns. For example, a convex _____ will spread the waves widely, and a concave
[007] will spread the waves widely, and a concave _____ will channel waves into a beam that will focus to a p
[008] of an asteroid, vaporising ice and rock on the body's _____ which would in turn translate into a vapour jet of su
[009] e likelihood of soil nutrient toxicity and ground and _____ water contamination is minimal if sufficient crop ac
[010] before a visible error is a defect in the paraboloid _____ and thus the wavefront undergoing the knife edge test
[011] f you look under a microscope, you will see that the _____ of any object is not smooth. Even something that loo
[012] ary-sized machines. In the 8 February PRL, a group of _____ scientists has demonstrated that friction can arise b
[013] orce pressing the two bodies together, but not on the _____ area of the contact surfaces. The coefficient of fric
[014] living, I've surprised myself by making what on the _____ at least, seems like a smooth transition from being a
[015] ntial to his approach: Once a story is affixed to its _____ , the ball turns to accommodate another story and ano
[016] act with nature, can be discerned under the deceptive _____ of our extended city. He called his vision 'Broadacr
[017] the first indication molten rock is moving toward the _____ , often followed by venting of steam and ash. The 198
[018] I was in over my head for enrolling in this weeklong _____ design class. Sure, I had tie- dyed some T- shirts i
[019] with a 'serious avocation' of painting silk scarves. _____ design was her seventh summer class at Arrowmont, he
[020] armless, inert, ashlike sludge- substance back to the _____ . It might even be hot enough to heat water and genera
[021] h has been operating a similar process, but near the _____ , by adding oxygen. This company is planning a wet- o
[022] loors. All that data can now be stored on one SERODS ( _____ Enhanced Raman Optical Data Storage) disk -- one 12-
[023] books. What does this mean to libraries? One SERODS ( _____ - Enhanced Raman Optical Data Storage) can hold the e
[024] rm images of the scene in front of the patient on the _____ of the fibers. These fibers, similar to those used to
[025] striking these tiny -- one or two microns in depth -- _____ ridges is diffracted, creating vivid colors and shape
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[001] ah". I was amazed. You had to have convictions to _____ down in the road in all those clothes and appear as
[002] e, and the whole world is telling you that one was a _____ . Even when he is on the way to Memphis you will stil
[003] She said, "There is nothing that concerns you here. _____ back and go to sleep. But do not dream. Do not let t
[004] des and a corkscrew?) Here was a perfect place to _____ down and make believe. He was Canute controlling the
[005] she said, smelled pugh because people let dead fish _____ on the beaches till the fish got hard as rocks; then
[006] adish out". Then, my mother blushed at this small _____ ; for she knew and we knew that it was cowardice that
[007] reluctance to try novel foods or dishes that seem to _____ beyond the limits of their socially constructed tast
[008] ety. 2 Ultrasonics refers to waves whose frequencies _____ above the audible range; ultrasonic frequencies range
[009] t significant contemporary applications of ultrasound _____ in the field of medicine. Because ultrasound readily
[010] mpletely unhinged, you may be sure, the trick has to _____ in those "innocent-seeming" props. And, in fact, you
[011] e, a man who wouldn't be broken, a man who wouldn't _____ down and take his punishment. " After being arrested
[012] ive and other factories. Today many big opportunities _____ in the biological "factory". One fast-moving field ha
[013] nal and layman, Dan Cruickshank says the solution may _____ in the reconciliation of modern technology with archi
[014] nal and layman, Dan Cruickshank says the solution may _____ in the reconciliation of modern technology with archi
[015] ch even his high-tech ventures inspire, help give the _____ to the over- simplifications of the extended debate a
[016] hose four, "that seemed to hang together, especially " _____ Still, Sleep Becalmed". It all became a kind of trib
[017] after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad, and then you have " _____ Still" . . . which is sombre, like a tribute, and the
[018] and cartoons with which modern children are sold the _____ that "animals are whimsical, endearing extensions of
[019] s, Transmanche Link. Eurotunnel's only hope seems to _____ in satisfying the banks' technical adviser that his fo
[020] an abducted Red Cross official in Sidon last year may _____ behind the seizure yesterday of two more Swiss deleg
[021] c is abandoned. Nearby, two rusting medieval cannons _____ half- buried in the sand. Their modern equivalents,
[022] uddenly raided by the army at 2am, villagers made me _____ on the ground and threw a blanket over me, telling the
[023] a vessel, especially if deprived of her masts, might _____ close to the land and thus be invisible to Herbert. N
[024] uld make admirable roads, in which a whole fleet could _____ at their ease!" "What is especially curious," observ
[025] ain Nemo foresaw it clearly! No, the danger does not _____ there!" Cyrus Harding advanced towards the enormous c
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[001] ne, whichever way one looked at it, to belong to the _____ group, and he was struggling unconsciously to build
[002] on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the _____ only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry o
[003] of Basho's classic frog-haiku by Roger Entwhistle, a _____ University of Maryland chemistry instructor. Althoug
[004] ize characters such as these than be able to identify _____ presidents, heads of corporations, or prominent artis
[005] red to these field studies, it becomes clear that the _____ distort the picture by grossly over- estimating women
[006] tter at the atomic level. Also Sunday, Ralph Reed, _____ head of the Christian Coalition and now a Republican
[007] tter at the atomic level. Also Sunday, Ralph Reed, _____ head of the Christian Coalition and now a Republican
[008] roam around in the forests eating one another," said a _____ University professor now in exile in New Jersey. T
[009] a radio interview in which Ariel Sharon, the hawkish _____ general who is now Israel's Minister of Infrastructur
[010] now that Mr. (Joseph P.) Kennedy is out, among them _____ Mayor Raymond Flynn of Boston, a Democrat. The other
[011] ace else in the nation must be pretty pathetic." The _____ Black Panther wondered why her son, a college graduat
[012] race. The participants included Kathleen Cleaver, the _____ Black Panther; Anita Hill, whose testimony during the
[013] e name popped up as an alias used by Mr. Johnson, a _____ driver for Loomis, Fargo & Company, said George Chee
[014] ation to attract a wider audience. Mr. Hirschorn, the _____ executive editor of New York magazine, who recently t
[015] ar the Princess had taken highly publicized trips to _____ war zones like Angola to conduct her high- profile
[016] ety doyenne Carol Petrie; Anne Sutherland Fuchs, the _____ publisher of Vogue, and Iris Love, the classical arch
[017] he notice was a silly mistake, " said Mr. Shulman, a _____ accountant with a major firm who now sells insurance
[018] f big, preachy government than George McGovern, the _____ senator and Presidential candidate, recently raised
[019] ber and the rookie wide receiver Ike Hilliard. Unlike _____ Coach Dan Reeves, Fassel likes his rookies to partici
[020] ing into its own for both home buyers and renters on _____ urban renewal land. Gone is the ambitious plan of Ros
[021] town meeting-in- motion along the water's edge, the _____ Senator just didn't sound like a guy gearing up for
[022] s (Gail) Ahern's universe. All but one of the cafe's _____ chefs graduated from the Culinary Institute of Americ
[023] organization, a privatized version of the county's _____ Office of Economic Development, is charged with attra
[024] e concern and public relations company. Ms. Blair, a _____ dance and biology student at Purchase College, borrow
[025] ed plaintiffs, their attorneys and other current and _____ workers may seem relatively small. From the standpoin
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[001] magazines every month. Life had included him in its " _____ American Artists" series and had photographed him at
[002] 's about sixty, now. Still painting, still a kind of _____ impressionist, beautiful canvases of mountains and f
[003] en seen through mist and fog) looked like a floodlit _____ painting- great blocks of dizzy color, punctuated at
[004] d equipment, had recently constructed an over-large, _____ plant in a burst of misguided optimism. Cursed with
[005] ere the color of golden toast. She lived in an ultra- _____ house whose decoration, appointments, paint, and eve
[006] at definite"? An old-fashioned mother said to her _____ daughter, "You must have gotten in quite late last n
[007] to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a _____ musical comedy for music and comedy". "What's t
[008] der to tell law courts and political arenas from the _____ theatre". "Do you think we need a new Henry James
[009] ng, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of _____ life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a su
[010] e My Friend, the Quizzical Salamander. Done in the _____ style of a "confession", Fink tells in exquisite det
[011] our identity would all have been rare. Welcome to the _____ world! 3 Life has certainly changed in 300 years, and
[012] a concern with this rapidly changing character of the _____ , industrial world: with where we have come from and w
[013] abies, and many, many others. Indeed it is a strange _____ world we live in ’Äì even when compared with the wor
[014] airplanes. We are only now beginning to see how our _____ lives are being changed by recent technologies like a
[015] into each other in an automatic process. In fact, in _____ times, all of these societies may be said to coexist.
[016] nce we have affects us in at least some small way. In _____ industrial and postindustrial societies, however, the
[017] tructure is such an important aspect of premodern and _____ societies, it has always been a special focus in the
[018] yes, give some examples. UNIT 3 CHAPTER 10 ’Äì THE _____ OFFICE: THE HIDDEN MEANINGS OF DESIGN 1 Get
[019] tention to the words in bold. The Chair 1 In the _____ office, hierarchy rules, and chairs play their part i
[020] rs. As the organizers of a British exhibition on the _____ chair in the 1980s, put it: The issue that most manuf
[021] top of the line models. Of course this is simply the _____ expression of a very old tradition in furniture-makin
[022] the words in bold. The Ergonomics of Sitting 1 The _____ office has undergone many changes from the rooms in w
[023] thy sitting is sitting upright " still prevailed, and _____ office furniture was designed for that body position.
[024] must be allowed to move and assume various postures, _____ design models for furniture need to incorporate the
[025] ne of the largest man-made environmental disasters of _____ times. Agricultural planning has robbed it of virtua