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[001] roups and individuals between our countries will not _____ out all language pertinent to the occasion. The pres
[002] aw and sheepskin mittens and without a hat. He would _____ this same costume in Florida, despite his wife Cleot
[003] ristmas bow still on it. "Look, an old man. Will you _____ pink when you're sixty"? "Darling, I love that
[004] e things she'd need to take, all but the dress she'd _____ Monday, and take the bag down to that place in the s
[005] rettier, she'd do her hair another way; smarter, and _____ different kinds of clothes- she'd be Katharine Ross,
[006] d know him by his stretch pants and the flowers he'd _____ twined in his hair. Perhaps if Felix had first co
[007] d out of his clothes. It was foolish and snobbish to _____ clothing when none of these nice people did. Th
[008] ering, half-mincing walk. Why did these yokels still _____ boots, anyway, when most had scarcely sat a horse in
[009] ising honest? "It depends on who does it. I never _____ anything at all. It wouldn't- wouldn't seem fair, so
[010] with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads _____ when they are out joyfully chopping cane. Horsely,
[011] elegant "At Home" cards she sent out, now she could _____ her pretty clothes again, and had the house all trim
[012] h, Sam. You look like a tweedy Englishman. Can't you _____ something else and look a little more as though you
[013] ke a barber pole"? "Because maybe I won't have to _____ it always. Dr. Fortman says if I exercise my leg mor
[014] ped suit when he is being his professional self, but _____ chinos and a Hawaiian shirt when he goes out on Satu
[015] n the others, how do you know that? Does that person _____ special clothes or have other markers of status? If s
[016] iana is a "right to carry " state, where citizens can _____ concealed weapons as long as they register that inten
[017] enant marriages " to make couples tough it out. Fur? _____ it at your own risk. The list goes on, and the lectur
[018] e about half the cost of natural slate, with similar _____ and fire- resistant characteristics. According to the
[019] s the eye into seeing something that isn't there. You _____ a headband holding a tiny mono color video- screen a
[020] or Dancing Through The Dark, Russell has also had to _____ his composer's hat, scoring five new songs and all t
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[001] sists unabated for the anxious child in an ambiguous _____ of school environment. The fact that such threat is
[002] , as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second _____ , then development of a theory better able to handle
[003] inguistic features. Of course, something of the same _____ occurs with other sectors of the phonology: consonan
[004] me very significant observations about problems of a _____ that are often difficult. A few of his examples are
[005] rthography design. We need many more studies of this _____ if the design of written languages is to be put on a
[006] their being "count rules" implies that there is some _____ of proportion to be expected between the amount of c
[007] s can be clearly drawn. A hypothetical issue of this _____ might deal with the establishment of a free public j
[008] nsive for working-class youth. In situations of this _____ the board generally favors the expansion of free edu
[009] hical inference and judgment. The purpose of this _____ of philosophical study of sociology is not to tyrann
[010] imitive anthropological status offers a more durable _____ of drama. By clarifying fundamental premises in the
[011] new scientific discipline, philosophy can offer the _____ of distinction that can accelerate growth in human u
[012] t all; and there was ample evidence of the following _____ to corroborate him. After a conversation with anothe
[013] one from shirking; no private property, no money; no _____ of pricing at all for any goods or services, and the
[014] ywhere- none of these is substantially served by any _____ of conventional mass rapid transit. They are all sub
[015] I could not know then that we would experience this _____ of treatment more often in Moscow than elsewhere. We
[016] e satisfied, this shows unconscious alienation. This _____ of manipulation is especially troublesome in Fromm's
[017] ittle content. Neither of them got very far beyond a _____ of entranced rapture at his own creativity. The prin
[018] er musically or emotionally. His sinuous melody is a _____ of nai^ve transcendence of all experience. Emotional
[019] no longer any sense of continuing development of the _____ that can be traced from Baudelaire to Eluard, or for
[020] le imitators of Hals and Sargent. Often work of this _____ is presented as calligraphy- the pure utterance of t
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[001] their areas, but they also contribute to top-level _____ making. The president who appoints strong men who ha
[002] the president must also bear the ultimate burden of _____ and action. ## A true university, like most succ
[003] edure in the beginning he had to go along with their _____ - after, of course, pointing out whether he thought t
[004] er, of course, pointing out whether he thought their _____ was a wise or an unwise one. Thus the films seen as
[005] we are now no longer dealing with a simple over-all _____ but rather with the examination and evaluation of ma
[006] obably prepared for elections by mid-1958, the first _____ was no doubt made more difficult as party strife mul
[007] adjustment that will avoid the waste of a tentative _____ as well as the friction of a premature constitutional
[008] cify, the right to be enforced. The Lincoln Mills _____ authorizes a whole new body of federal "common law"
[009] epending upon what court (state or federal) rendered _____ . We consider here only a few of many problems inv
[010] s this: what constitutes reversible error in a state _____ ? Terminiello v. Chicago involved a conviction for di
[011] ruled. Often the displeased parties interpreted our _____ as implying favoritism toward the other. We have con
[012] human reaction and is one of the consequences of any _____ in an adversary proceeding. It is disconcerting, n
[013] idical principle in California that a Superior Court _____ does not constitute a binding legal precedent. It is
[014] Court, which could rule to the contrary. Only when a _____ is rendered by the District Court of Appeal (or, of
[015] d beyond the compelling need for a binding precedent _____ , I am convinced that the decisions of the Superior C
[016] dair. The ramifications of the issue are enormous. A _____ to refer workers to jobs vacant because of a strike
[017] schools since 1954, shortly after the Supreme Court _____ . This recapitulation makes it clear that school
[018] ively? On the one hand do we argue the Supreme Court _____ required only that a child not be denied admission t
[019] s arise, when the educator has to make a choice or a _____ within the area of his professional competence, but
[020] e collage, had just as much to do with shaping their _____ . When the smaller facet-planes of Analytical Cubism
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[001] hods of calibrating the antennae and receivers, must _____ for much of the disagreement in the measured radio b
[002] ooled anode holder were measured by thermocouples to _____ for heat received by the coolant but not originating
[003] , **f adsorbs water from the atmosphere and this may _____ for the low chromium analysis and high total weight
[004] t changes in the hypothalamic- cortical discharges _____ for major changes in behavior seen in various moods
[005] the multiple secant, plus an additional component to _____ for the intersections of the images of the general l
[006] of the people themselves are effectively taken into _____ . If modernization programs are imposed from above, w
[007] lification. A more realistic analysis must take into _____ the fact that Brandywine people in the urban-fringe
[008] communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to _____ for her being able to speak, with such utter convict
[009] ortant secondary relationship. Thus in Mary wrote an _____ of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary
[010] t of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an _____ of her trip (about which she may later have made spe
[011] ants or vowels. No single explanation is adequate to _____ for this. Improvement, however, is urgent, and at le
[012] of morphophonemic complexity. This hypothesis will _____ for a large part of the difficulties of tonal analys
[013] r Federal or state governments. Today, Federal funds _____ for only one-fifth of the nation's expenditures for
[014] to live with Negroes. All of this must be taken into _____ before the image of an "all-Negro" D.C. public schoo
[015] we all want no child denied admission to a school on _____ of his color. In general, members of NAIRO would ce
[016] that a child not be denied admission to a school on _____ of his race? Or should we argue that if we want adju
[017] HHOLDING OF FUNDS TO SCHOOLS THAT DENY CHILDREN ON _____ OF RACE._ This is the Powell Amendment, which in
[018] school district that denies admission to a child on _____ of his race? This is softer than earlier Powell amen
[019] class values and consequently fail to take them into _____ . But there is very little frank and conscious espous
[020] nd a learned diversion and a pleasing joke in More's _____ of the stupid brutalities of early sixteenth century
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[001] nt programs, governments may fail to push outward to _____ more and more people to the national effort, becomin
[002] Even industrial development leaders find it hard to _____ local support for training unless a new industry is
[003] here is to persist a market at all. And the few must _____ what the many lose, for the opposite arrangement wou
[004] l years. We are just beginning the task of trying to _____ or maintain the friendship of the new African nation
[005] ild learns that intense emotional outbursts will not _____ approval by his peers, and, therefore, makes a real
[006] "We've had any number of calls about you. You could _____ a popularity contest at that school without any trou
[007] is throttling the liberty my father gave his life to _____ "! John was quietly insistent. "There can be no co
[008] d to love this country and believe that someday we'd _____ our battle for equality. But now I think I hate it v
[009] ratoga. Maple and ash, beech and elm, one hundred to _____ on Three in the fourth, fifty to
[010] on Three in the fourth, fifty to _____ on Six in the third, one hundred to
[011] on Six in the third, one hundred to _____ on Two in the eighth. Children walking home from sch
[012] isn't involved. I might struggle in for a jury. I'd _____ hands down. But I thought maybe Tony Elliott could p
[013] I tell you when it's necessary to hurt in order to _____ - you won't do it. That's what I mean by no heart for
[014] rs. The battle had to be fought. Let the best sex _____ . But his resolution hardly seemed to help. If the
[015] ain them to be slaves. The apes eventually revolt and _____ control of the planet. They then go on to develop a s
[016] l Basketball Association title. "We want New York to _____ ," said Rebecca, a guard for the Lady Bruins, a neigh
[017] Avenue, Mr. Martin was all modesty. "It was a good _____ ," he said of his surprise victory on Monday. Then he
[018] mid prosperity. Ruth W. Messinger, who is expected to _____ the Democratic mayoral nomination in New York next we
[019] his team has any heart and questioned whether it can _____ on the road. In short, he has set them up for the 1
[020] ed, all of those things. And it was special enough to _____ the grand prize in the 11th annual Jersey Fresh Dairy
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[001] hundred and fifty pounds was disseminated while the _____ was traveling a distance of 156 miles. Figure 1 d
[002] mistakable ruins of Heorot or the palace of Priam. A _____ at dry-dock could be called a foamy-necked floater i
[003] led a foamy-necked floater in Anglo-Saxon or a swift _____ in Greek. Even when defenseless of weapons the Danes
[004] to provide defense zones around naval and merchant _____ formations, air to furnish area surveillance, and mi
[005] ill appear. It's like focusing a camera; the distant _____ isn't there until you get the focus. You know what I
[006] to hold several million Jews ... A tale of a plan to _____ all Jews to the island of Madagascar ... Stories of
[007] er was ordered and a bottle of port. When Napoleon's _____ had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to c
[008] , as shiningly impressive as the day it came off the _____ , was parked at the curb. The elderly chauffeur, imma
[009] g dead things. I know as well as the next man that a _____ is called from the rigging she carries, where the li
[010] the male and female party that would arrive by next _____ . This went faster than scheduled as the Martians wer
[011] is all I can tell you about them. "But the third _____ came back several years ago and reported ..." "
[012] nteer, you will be told where you're going after the _____ leaves. And it leaves very soon". "You need a l
[013] soon". "You need a linguist"? said Hal. "The _____ is huge", said Macneff, "but the number of military
[014] those few needed to carry out the performance of the _____ , went into the suspensor. Here they would lie in sus
[015] er, the photon-counting apparatus in the nose of the _____ would determine that the star was close enough to ac
[016] look over there", Nogol said. "Animals. Ringing the _____ . Think they're intelligent, maybe hostile"? "I th
[017] reason to leave the comfortable quarters inside the _____ , except that, faced with a possibility of sleeping o
[018] er the long period of enforced intimacy on board the _____ . Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and listened to the sou
[019] Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the _____ 's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth cen
[020] ead beasties. All the dead animals laying around the _____ ". "What are you talking about, Ryan? What do you
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[001] ising- offer presidents one of their best chances to _____ freedom for attention to education ... Here the reas
[002] bviously someone has to sell in order for someone to _____ , and vice versa. And while all concerned are members
[003] weak hands ask, What is going on? When strong hands _____ , they are able to
[004] , they are able to _____ more, and they do it even in the face of bearish new
[005] or, including two members of our Trustee Board. They _____ some supplies from our colored grocers and they are
[006] s and irrigating the desert. A fund-raising drive to _____ tractors and machinery was launched. Andrei remember
[007] from drink because, though sometimes Precious would _____ himself a drink if he went out with us in the evenin
[008] ter. They had cleaned up an old ice box and begun to _____ fifty-pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric
[009] m? Where were they all walking to? Was I supposed to _____ a funny hat and a rattle for Jessica? It was a qu
[010] you bastards", I said, "the great actor is about to _____ a drink". I laid a tenspot on the bar and motione
[011] beside him he said, "Some heap, hey? Got a heck of a _____ on this, dirt cheap". "Yeah, it's a real load",
[012] one of his favorite bars, he insisted on offering to _____ drinks for both of them. Phil usually went alone
[013] want to encourage his company, but felt he ought to _____ him a drink anyhow, to prevent possible trouble. But
[014] in it for the shortest of stays; they would have to _____ things for her. She opened the door. Unimpressed,
[015] exciting conceptions of Hamrick's that nobody would _____ , and the coincidental recent failure of a respected
[016] y too difficult. Then he caught fire. If A- Z could _____ Ticonderoga cheaply and use their presses and dies a
[017] and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Never once did he _____ me a single gift and for our third anniversary he ga
[018] encroachment of the dawn. #24# AT LEAST HE COULD _____ THE equipment for his workshop. Thus committed, ac
[019] friends were talking. One said, "When I get a cold I _____ a bottle of whiskey for it, and within a few hours i
[020] e up to people on the street and ask if they want to _____ a hot Bodhisattva. Additionally, since you're going
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[001] f high voltages and low currents by proper design to _____ electron heat transfer to the anode for a given powe
[002] by measuring the temperature rise of the coolant. To _____ heat transfer from the hot has to this anode holder
[003] the carbon shield was covered with aluminum foil to _____ radiation. Temperatures of the shield and of the sur
[004] at an accurate heat balance can be made. In order to _____ the number of variable parameters, all experiments w
[005] p serum for half an hour before layering **f did not _____ nonspecific staining. The only treatment by which
[006] on to all preventive casework service: to cushion or _____ the force of the stress impact while at the same tim
[007] at of municipal school boards. Correlatively, can we _____ the role of the district courts, so that the action
[008] require are not prime buildings by a long shot), and _____ the acreage that can be taxed. Downtown Los Angeles
[009] the drive belts caused the aerator to slow down and _____ oxygen transfer as well as the mixing of the raw sew
[010] that it concentrate on current measures which will _____ future force requirements. The world is constantl
[011] onal intelligence can ensure sound planning, greatly _____ force requirements, and increase tactical effectiven
[012] bined in a single package. Effective employment will _____ force requirements. For example, effective mine b
[013] inyl products with a slight cellular core that would _____ costs yet would not affect physical properties of th
[014] It might be anticipated that multiple coatings will _____ end reflection losses even further. The internal
[015] the same time, every device that can be employed to _____ the number of variables is of the greatest value, an
[016] rect, the platform rotates in such a direction as to _____ the accelerometer output to zero. As the acceleromet
[017] 0s, it was predicted that increasing irrigation would _____ the amount of water flowing to the sea and substantia
[018] amount of water flowing to the sea and substantially _____ its size. At the time, a number of experts saw this a
[019] d claims that drinking cranberry juice regularly can _____ the incidence of urinary tract infections. 10 In 1
[020] s, companies can require the wearing of devices which _____ the level of noise, such as internal foam ear plugs an
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[001] ner. "He's all right, Craig", Rachel said. "I can _____ him something later in the afternoon when we get hom
[002] President said, "If you hear of any names that would _____ me cheap in return for advertising they decorated th
[003] Buckra et tonight"? he demanded. "Know what I had to _____ fer Ole Him"? Adam shook his head. "Chicke
[004] fter supper, and she had to put on a clean dress and _____ her hair a little. Every night they all went to
[005] ink when you've raised these we'll just have the vet _____ it so there won't be any more .... I wonder if the C
[006] undred thousand dollars and thirty days lost time to _____ them. We don't want Barton's Night Riders loose agai
[007] ances for taking Joe's place"? he asked. "If you can _____ it up with the undertaker", returned the politician,
[008] of ways in which knowledge can be explicit. If you _____ a degree n and a prime p, we can consider all number
[009] re costs. They have 10 years and a billion dollars to _____ faulty sewage treatment plants, to rebuild barnyards
[010] g in the lobby. On cold days, the reverse happens. To _____ the problem, new ventilation units have been put in
[011] ake things happen instead of relying on City Hall to _____ everything. Built in the 1950s, the house is on abou
[012] once had all those markets tied up, got into such a _____ ? What have they to offer now, when all their executiv
[013] l be cheaper to lay fiber- optic cable than to try to _____ or replace what is there now. The project is under wa
[014] Stock Exchange, once appeared on television's Jim'll _____ it to hang a badge around a small child's neck. The t
[015] pily, for without matches or tinder we should be in a _____ ." "Still we might get fire as the savages do," replied
[016] ition between this rising and setting, he reckoned to _____ the north of the island exactly, for, in consequence
[017] which separated Alpha from the horizon. In order to _____ the angle obtained, he fastened with thorns the two p
[018] e was eighty feet wide. It was therefore necessary to _____ piles in the bed of the river so as to sustain the fl
[019] the hearth. The sight of the flame seemed at first to _____ the attention of the unhappy object, but soon he turn
[020] , and occupied himself in different things, so as to _____ his attention. A spark, indeed, would be sufficient t