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Each item contains 7 lines of text. In the middle of each line is a gap (a blank line). Which word fits in all of the gaps in each set? Use the drop-down menu to make your choice. If you choose an incorrect word, it will appear next to the drop-down list. Keep trying until you choose the right word. When you finish the quiz, you will see your score. Click START OVER to try the quiz again.
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[001] ere to spell out the conditions of creative teaching _____ to point out that, at the college level, the sense o
[002] d the geriatric aspects of golf. (On Thursday nobody _____ Charlie Coe was thinking of Charlie Coe.) On Fr
[003] a could easily guess we did not desire a nuclear war _____ in the ultimate extremity. This left the Soviets
[004] e willing to join forces under a single directorate, _____ in the most loose-knit fashion. Carvey believes t
[005] No warden or guard to touch lock, key or doorknob _____ when accompanied by a prisoners' committee with powe
[006] UNTO DEATH# The nuclear war is already being fought, _____ that the bombs are not being dropped on enemy target
[007] the lesson. To hang 50 Governors might be preferable _____ that they are not directly related to the highways;
[008] ery high. Even so, it adds up to impossible odds, _____ that the question arises, On whose side would the Ma
[009] e the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces. _____ for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek
[010] e vast, dungeon kitchens may seem hardly worth using _____ on occasions when one is faced with a thousand unexp
[011] f these to choose from, all of them of popular music _____ for the star release, Pass in Review ( SP-44001). Th
[012] d Boaz and sets that are meticulously authentic. But _____ for a vague adherence to the basic storyline- i.e.,
[013] drawback to enjoyment of the performances, however, _____ in the case of the opening work, Mozart's Sonata in
[014] mproviser of movements of the limbs, torso and neck, _____ that these talents add immensely to the enjoyment of
[015] s and applause and flowers. All went home happy _____ the Newport police, who feared that the throng depar
[016] "Heaven Has No Favorites" does not alter the record _____ to add one more bad book to the list. Mr. Remarqu
[017] . It is difficult to say what can be done about them _____ that we must learn to recognize when it is they, rat
[018] nted in social institutions and social relationships _____ in the context of some pax-ordo preserved by clothed
[019] t and they'll make a showing every month in the year _____ the frigid ones. Give them food, some shade, mulch,
[020] rom any edge. Drill all No. 50 and counter-drill all _____ the " A" pieces size 43. Tap the " A" pieces 2-56.
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[001] t came after a period of sharp deterioration in _____ -West relations. The heightened tension, in fact, had
[002] l the West while Moscow made inroads into the Middle _____ . In 1959 President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushc
[003] a, on March 9. It dealt mainly with a broad range of _____ -West issues. But it also briefly suggested the possi
[004] caused by the Russians' new demand for a three-man ( _____ , West and neutral) directorate, and thus a veto, ove
[005] ral belt extending from Southeast Asia to the Middle _____ . THERE ARE, so my biologist friends tell me, mech
[006] ular area, which headquarters could then build upon. _____ Meadow has philosophy, psychology, and religion; Fre
[007] bricht, by grace of Soviet tanks, may be head man in _____ Germany, that does not give him any right to usurp t
[008] es not give him any right to usurp the government of _____ Berlin or to absorb that semi-city into the Soviet z
[009] ws for the two areas. Then they moved offices of the _____ German puppet government into
[010] German puppet government into _____ Berlin and began illegally to treat it as the capita
[011] in and began illegally to treat it as the capital of _____ Germany. That this and the closing of the
[012] Germany. That this and the closing of the _____ Berlin-West Berlin border have not been accepted by
[013] cellor had as much business there as Ulbricht had in _____ Berlin- and was certainly less provocative than the
[014] t efforts of the Communist authorities "to integrate _____ Berlin into
[015] Berlin into _____ Germany by isolating it from the outside and attempt
[016] the outside and attempting to make it the capital of _____ Germany". They insisted on the "fundamental fact" th
[017] ermans, to a free Berlin and to reunion with captive _____ Germany. What is in doubt as the free Germans and
[018] e represents one reason new plants shy away from the _____ Side. And then there is St. Louis county, where t
[019] ing from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far _____ , he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization
[020] out of the fire by new military adventures". #@# _____ Berlin (Communist) radio in German to Germany: "A
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[001] ved measures backing ETV and the House has let them _____ . But this year prospects may be better. The House co
[002] o watch as tiny and innocent and dependent creatures _____ because we're afraid to feed them and afraid to prot
[003] cal field, adaptations have long been the rule, from _____ Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My
[004] into excellent shape, and we let it disintegrate and _____ . During the war, we set up schools for the teachi
[005] ans Knappertsbusch conducting, and he also conducts " _____ Meistersinger", to be presented Aug. 8 and 12. The
[006] ment of it is something else. His heroine chooses to _____ - the price of recovery, years under the strict regim
[007] pit; a Portago could say, as he did say to me, "If I _____ tomorrow, still I have had twenty-eight wonderful ye
[008] have had twenty-eight wonderful years; but I shan't _____ tomorrow; I'll live to be 105". Clerfayt, transpo
[009] t muscle is suffocated, cells supplied by the artery _____ , and the heart is permanently, perhaps fatally injur
[010] to earth, the representative Head of a new race, to _____ upon the cross and pay the penalty of the sin of the
[011] God put His Son, Jesus Christ, on earth to live and _____ to save our hell-bound souls? "For God so loved the
[012] give justice social embodiment. "I would far rather _____ after a Russian occupation of this country- by some
[013] his country- by some deliberate act of refusal- than _____ uselessly by atomisation". Would such an act of refu
[014] t age flexible so skilled craftsmen such as tool and _____ makers can be kept on the job for the convenience of
[015] red we would ever retire. We always thought we would _____ with our boots on. Out of the blue comes talk of pen
[016] ted because the patients who are the chief witnesses _____ before the case is called up in court". ## DEATH
[017] han Elizabeth; that in the United States more people _____ of heart disease than of smallpox. So each reading c
[018] the field and prevailed- thinking that I had better _____ by rebel bullets than [by] Union quackery". The a
[019] was not completely convinced that men would really _____ for a four-syllable word, "Garryowen". The final pro
[020] e. The fragrance and taste of any white wine will _____ a lingering death when it is allowed to warm or is
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[001] but along completely undefined lines; it must play a _____ in which there never is a winner. The fact is that a
[002] rainstorm when it was only half completed), Player's _____ rapidly fell to pieces. He bogeyed the 10th. After a
[003] bound to do better; or Rosburg, whose accurate short _____ and supersensitive putter can overcome so many of Au
[004] It is almost axiomatic that golfers who dominate the _____ of golf for any period of time attack their shots wi
[005] the ninth big leaguer to stroke four home runs in a _____ ; (3) the Milwaukee Braves tied a major-league record
[006] out three times, dropped a fly ball, and we lost the _____ . I came back, sitting by my locker, feeling real low
[007] nism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the _____ he was born to play. Under any name- Mr. Speaker,
[008] rnia a few months ago, I've been introduced to a new _____ called Lanesmanship. Played mostly on the freeways
[009] milies and children, and old professors ... when the _____ and its probable outcome has been exhausted ... that
[010] here on the field for him never to like watching the _____ as a spectator in the crowd. He always feels lonely.
[011] re are other dangers: Politics is an accelerating _____ . "If an opponent accuses you of lying, don't deny it
[012] es over election procedures, the complicated numbers _____ that East and West played on the assistant secretari
[013] lling power and ample range for our most popular big _____ - whitetail. Ruger reports that on his recent Afri
[014] and simple; it's much too explosive for small edible _____ . It can cut a red squirrel neatly in two or burst a
[015] bers. You may therefore convert the gun into a small- _____ and plinking arm, although the difference in the poi
[016] s, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., has a do-it-yourself quiz _____ called "Benefit Bafflers", which it distributes to e
[017] et shooting. And due to modern resource-use and _____ management practices, there is still
[018] management practices, there is still _____ to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment
[019] annual harvest to be sown and also reaped. Unlimited _____ bags are possible and legal in more than 40 states,
[020] hooting preserves (one of the newer phases of modern _____ -management) for five and six months each year. Cl
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[001] world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop _____ to 100 million tons of TNT, to knock sense into the
[002] blic opinion prepared to accept the inevitability of _____ treatment. These programs emphasize the acceptanc
[003] using violence to try to stop Negroes from claiming _____ rights. They insist they are ashamed of such violenc
[004] f the electron and proton are believed to be exactly _____ and opposite, but Dr. Lyttleton is not so sure. Supp
[005] ognition that the Catholic Church is now at least of _____ stature in England with the Protestant churches. On
[006] rams, sometimes discussing the Christian faith on an _____ footing with Protestant clergymen. A notable example
[007] ion; it is also their mathematical mean, since it is _____ to half the sum of every opposing pair, all of which
[008] to half the sum of every opposing pair, all of which _____ 10. In fact, the neat balance of these pairs, and th
[009] osed of large and small even (Yin) numbers, were all _____ to each other. Thus all differences were leveled, an
[010] still both are done, while the evil effect is, with _____ consciousness on the part of the agent, foreknown to
[011] earless advocacy of abolition, but he also stood for _____ rights for women, for opportunity for the freedmen,
[012] In a saucepan put sufficient water to cover them, an _____ amount of sugar, a sliced lemon, a tablespoonful of
[013] at just one of these natural beauty spots can be of _____ reward. In California is located one of the most
[014] to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll _____ to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms
[015] nd the fact that your buildings have a useful radius _____ in all directions. However, a narrow strip may be ve
[016] the structure of the composition, I mean to project _____ concern for color. Often, in working out-of-doors un
[017] -level supervisors will be selected in approximately _____ numbers from the second and third engineering level,
[018] er entirely naked", while another woman, boasting an _____ number of years of married life, is proud of having
[019] h bring to it unselfish love, and each takes away an _____ share of pleasure and joy. At its most ecstatic
[020] ce protection, and similar municipal services are of _____ quality in city and country, real estate taxes are u
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[001] smembered the bodies and tossed the remains into the _____ . The excuse was offered for them that they had mista
[002] g their activities and the great flood of the Mekong _____ has interposed a new crisis. South Viet Nam's rice s
[003] of Ahmad's visit, too! @ #EXPRESSWAY ANSWER: EAST _____ DRIVE# _TO THE EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER:_ Your co
[004] We shuffle a large percentage of the cars across the _____ twice. They start on the East side of the Schuylkill
[005] , tunnels and ferries are the most common methods of _____ crossings. Each one of these is, by its nature, a
[006] keep ars starting and ending on the East side of the _____ - on the East side. This can be accomplished by
[007] by several logical steps: _(1)_ Widen the East _____ Drive at least one lane. _(2)_ So widen it as t
[008] increase the traffic carrying capability of the East _____ Drive by fifty percent. _(4)_ This could be acc
[009] nd without destroying the natural beauty of the East _____ Drive. @ #SHADOW OVER WASHINGTON SQUARE# _TO THE E
[010] ics and transport; airdrops and airstrips; roads and _____ barges to be built. #EXPECTED OF A COMMANDER# Co
[011] e drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to "Old Man _____ ", which seems to have been elected the favorite solo
[012] tian hills and in the area south of the St. Lawrence _____ . In the Maritime provinces farther east, the tones a
[013] including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first _____ steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolho
[014] prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri _____ reservoirs. The panels will stay up until they are r
[015] cooler weather and the chance to buzz over Colorado _____ sandbars and Lake Mead. Newest small-boat playground
[016] Arkabutla Lake where fall racing is now in progress. _____ cruising for small craft is ideal in November. At Ne
[017] oreline frame the 30-odd lakes in the vast Tennessee _____ system that loops in and out of seven states. When d
[018] of the family. Another man tried to swim across the _____ from the East to the West, but was shot and killed.
[019] of the Han period and the latter from the principal _____ systems of Old China. Thus the middle number, 5,
[020] Chi in the Northeast; and the 6, the (upper) Yellow _____ in the Northwest. Note that by Western standard
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[001] ock of the anti-trust laws. (Pp. 228-229) ... in any _____ , it is obvious that the anti-trust laws did not prev
[002] e modern world is "all this gallivantin'". In any _____ , the yearly sacrifice of 40,000 victims is a hecatom
[003] league, George Santayana, he could write: "The great _____ in my life recently has been the reading of Santayan
[004] his tutoring. The work was presented as the final _____ in the Town Hall Festival of Music. It was paired wi
[005] fit from it should be the last to despise it. In any _____ , it is an irreversible step, and if we are at all ho
[006] a considerable quantity is accepted; for, in either _____ , the first possibility is excluded. Therefore, the o
[007] ng, frees itself to give appropriate emphasis to the _____ Jesus Christ by means of statements that, from Bultm
[008] The Bells of St. Mary's. Of course, the crowning _____ that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern
[009] the 14th century. English Catholics reacted to this _____ with moderate but real hope. Almost daily somethi
[010] sense, be said to repeat itself; yet each historical _____ remains unique. Christ is both unique and universal.
[011] orizon. We live in the bright daylight of that great _____ ; for us it is a fact in history. Why should we not h
[012] re to kill the other members of our household in the _____ of our being less injured than they are"? Thus, mora
[013] st Muscular Man" subdivision award in the Mr. Canada _____ ... and a host of others. Yesiree ... the professor
[014] r died in 1810 and Oersted not only lived to see the _____ occur but was the author of it. In 1803 Oersted
[015] ents at the university related that the first direct _____ that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery o
[016] ngest feeling of having lived through this very same _____ before. I can't tell when, but I'm positive I witnes
[017] One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an _____ which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previo
[018] frequencies. This theory makes it possible for any _____ throughout eternity to be continuously available at
[019] a vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel _____ is a feeling of having lived through it before, a fe
[020] a private definition of anti-Semitism. But in either _____ he was the wrong man for the kind of case outlined b
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[001] and other troubles of the world? _5._ Does it _____ crude pressure tactics with such means as anonymous
[002] is not to attempt to say what spirit is, but only to _____ a commonly used word to designate or simply identify
[003] rail-mobile ICBM force. It is entirely feasible to _____ aircraft such as the B-52 or B-70 in hunter-killer
[004] res in existence today throughout the world, we must _____ these resources without war or violent revolution.
[005] ions are open to suspicion because of his failure to _____ at all times the correct research methods. This shou
[006] ed, for the first time giving everyone the chance to _____ his talents to the fullest. Mankind, as a result, at
[007] greater than in the past. The AWOC has been able to _____ the traditional weapons of labor- the strike and the
[008] s who did not understand. Many school systems now _____ school psychologists and child guidance specialists.
[009] experiments. Ripe Geometric potters continued to _____ the old syntax of ornaments and shapes and made use
[010] her in the event that she was still in Mrs. Meeker's _____ at the time of the latter's death. (No additional fi
[011] expected by most of the large organizations that will _____ these same children later in life. 10 Schools also s
[012] ially good targets for marketing communications that _____ fantasy to attract consumer attention. The marketing
[013] volume of an earlier twentieth-century operation, may _____ only a hundred people. The reduction in work force r
[014] e Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute and at NASA will _____ space technology to develop a device designed to imp
[015] s motto - "Good architecture is good business" - they _____ a wide range of architects, both established and up-a
[016] y rent by stylistic conflict, Lipton and Bradman both _____ architects ranging from the most modernist to the mos
[017] or while Victorian buildings in the City could merely _____ variations on the Italian palazzo idea, the new cent
[018] e Irish Republic. Its Ir £300m ( £264m) plant will _____ 2, 600 workers within 10 years. The decision will com
[019] Pencroft, "but the savages must know how to do it or _____ a peculiar wood, for more than once I have tried to g
[020] e, the branches of which the Indians of South America _____ for making their bows. It was the crejimba, of the pa
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[001] or even continued stalemate, would mean an unchecked _____ of nuclear weapons to other countries as well as a
[002] emier Khrushchev was also concerned about a possible _____ of nuclear weapons, particularly to Communist China.
[003] V stations that are not members of the NAB tends to _____ . Soon some members of the two industry groups dou
[004] ates agriculture is the "strongest deterrent" to the _____ of communism. But the secretary insists that the suc
[005] and the bird that had lost it in flight. The winging _____ of blue had gone on, calling harshly, into the wood.
[006] has been exhausted ... that does it. #MIDDLE-AGED _____ # By then one begins to notice the middle-age
[007] # By then one begins to notice the middle-age _____ ; the gray hairs, the eyeglasses, bodies that are too
[008] be elected. As the new clouds of radioactive fallout _____ silently and invisibly around the earth, the Soviet
[009] rebellion, it is assumed: but will their discontent _____ to the officer class? The immediate families of the
[010] h sufferer as he confronts us, hoping that this will _____ beyond him to others at some time and some place. Ne
[011] advance copy. If this practice should take root and _____ , the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher wil
[012] unfortunately his voice was out of focus and often _____ in quality. Eileen Farrell in the title role, Mig
[013] a pond when you drop a stone into it. These ripples _____ out in symmetrical patterns like the rose windows of
[014] compost into their bed; lacking that, decayed manure _____ over the bed is fine. One year I simply set the plan
[015] and cool. Set the apples in the pastry-lined tin, _____ over them three tablespoonfuls of softened butter, w
[016] fashion. Make a paste of brown sugar and mustard and _____ lightly over scored surface. If desired, sprinkle wi
[017] red board and roll out to form a **f-inch rectangle. _____ dough with a mixture of 3 tablespoons chili sauce, 1
[018] nd in position to be purled. _TO MEASURE WORK:_ _____ article on flat surface to required width before mea
[019] n the center of the thickness to make the four. Then _____ a generous amount of glue on the four pieces and ben
[020] or the fastenings. The next step is to remove it and _____ glue where it has been marked at the contact points.