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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] rdon's spirit and did what she could to persuade her _____ that the boy might help the team. As Hartweger
[002] measles, and his sister, Mrs. Andrew Thomas, and her _____ , who live in Missoula, Mont., have a new baby. The
[003] will be chairman of publicity for the benefit. Her _____ recently was appointed vice president of the univers
[004] The land lies ready for the coming onslaught. My _____ and I, a month ahead of the rush, have just finished
[005] pa Gamma and a member of Mortar Board at SMU. Her _____ , who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, L
[006] resbach's body on the first-floor bedroom floor. Her _____ was lying on the kitchen floor, police said. The
[007] cery, 2825 E. Burnside St., in April of 1959. Her _____ , who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison
[008] and other officers. Taylor said Mrs. Huntley and her _____ also will be questioned about a series of 15 Portlan
[009] nt income. A spouse employed by a corporation her _____ controls, for example, may be entitled to distr
[010] ociations. Both Miss Garson and her oilman-rancher _____ are active supporters of Boys Clubs of America and p
[011] ring the Hungarian uprisings in 1957 and she and her _____ Stephen fled to Vienna. There they continued th
[012] new outlook on life. Mary is cheery and gay when her _____ comes home in the evenings, and the children's bed-t
[013] rine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her _____ Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly
[014] is one from Rep. Dwyer, R-6th Dist. Mrs. Dwyer's _____ , M. Joseph Dwyer, was taking a 10-year-old boy from
[015] time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her _____ could be so dumb. Investors breathed more freely whe
[016] estiny. @ I would like very much, on behalf of my _____ and myself, to send our eternal thanks to all the wo
[017] of the owner of a small, independent meat market. My _____ 's hours away from home for the past years have been
[018] dependent market owners work six days a week; and my _____ hasn't had a vacation in 14 years. No, we are not gr
[019] should be government-controlled. The funeral for my _____ was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far
[020] mother of five children and an active member of her _____ 's organization, participated in all the exercises.
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[001] udy, according to highest standards, under Christian _____ , are paramount in the Emory University policy.
[002] it. The best approach, he figured, was to try to _____ young people like the high schoolers he and his wife
[003] re which sycophantically chanted his praise, and his _____ extended even to Congress. Until the last year
[004] rskjold, despite the danger, flew to exert a calming _____ . He gave his life for his beliefs. The U.N. ses
[005] their legal talents, but because of their government _____ . #THE U. N.'S 'GRAVEST CRISIS'# Ambassador Stevens
[006] neapple was worked in naturalistic color. #CHINESE _____ # For a particularly fabulous room which houses a col
[007] period of development the mother should continue to _____ the growth of the child's conscience. She tells him
[008] ts use- to defend Berlin, for example; the pervasive _____ of ideology on our political judgments needs to be r
[009] ds are, yours has nourished mine, as no other social _____ ever has, and in converse with you I have always fel
[010] buted everything that went wrong in Russia to German _____ and intrigue. This, more than any other factor, led
[011] ately worked out and, in fact, show a strong Italian _____ . Couperin also turns up along with some lesser-kn
[012] a vigorous Indian dance, and landscapes suggest the _____ of western color on his palette). The fact that
[013] far that pedimented and pillared style has shed its _____ Mr. Sansom reminds us thus: "The white colonnaded
[014] rnment of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil _____ behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris
[015] ries per oz.), but each exerts a radically different _____ on blood cholesterol. As a result, although we still
[016] thematical puzzle", was able to exert a considerable _____ on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chines
[017] ave initiated the idea that natural elements exerted _____ in human life and activities- recognized only four?
[018] d to seek further action against Christians once the _____ making for tolerance due to Nehru and his followers
[019] nother image emerges, that of considerable power and _____ in the community. Obviously, much more than customer
[020] e of an obstacle is the difficulty of separating the _____ of Christianity from other factors. Although a
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[001] of 22 homers and drove in 86 runs on a .255 freshman _____ , completes the Birds' spring squad at 49 players.
[002] n got only six hits in 46 at-bats for a .130 batting _____ in the first 12 games. He took a midnight train o
[003] Once the figure was 30-30. Willie's lifetime batting _____ of .318 is 11 points beyond Mickey's. The Giants
[004] asing all of Monday's losses in the Associated Press _____ and making the largest gain in about two weeks. A
[005] epresented by around 675 in the Dow Jones industrial _____ . It was a level at which some of the investors stand
[006] the way for lower taxes. The Dow Jones industrial _____ advanced 7.19 to 687.87. Of 1,253 issues traded
[007] Treasury bills. On $1.1 billion of 90-day bills, the _____ yield was 2.325%. The rate a week ago was 2.295%.
[008] ns these two dealers are experiencing are above _____ for their business, farm equipment sales are climbin
[009] s year is officially forecast at 129% of the 1947-49 _____ , three points higher than the July 1 estimate and ex
[010] hird consecutive month, reaching 242% of the 1910-14 _____ compared with 237% at mid-July. KENNEDY OPPOSES a
[011] has none of the senseless brutality or sadism of the _____ TV Western. Week in, week out, there is more sex to
[012] overhead charges are allocated- whether marginal or _____ pricing is applied. The problem becomes even mo
[013] ce swings. Mantle is considerably better hitting for _____ (.332, fourth in the league, to .280 for Maris so fa
[014] Congo. But almost all the schools were primary. The _____ Congolese can do little more than puzzle out the mea
[015] peak on February 21, according to Standard + Poor's _____ . On balance, prices of those bonds have slipped a bi
[016] only around $3.15 per day per patient. The national _____ is more than $4 and that figure is considered by exp
[017] ment has been substantially higher than the national _____ . The Federal program eventually should have a favora
[018] ute of Technology are reported receiving the highest _____ starting salaries in the school's history- $550 a mo
[019] enetic effects of fallout be understood. But for the _____ citizen, unfortunately, this is one of science's wor
[020] ips into the dancers' costumes. With tips, the girls _____ between $150 and $200 a week, depending on basic s
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[001] me to". For a number of years the board used a _____ to keep a permanent record but abandoned the practic
[002] ials that he would not talk to them with a recording _____ sitting in front of him. The Board of County Comm
[003] 00 hours a month. Field does the planning for the _____ operations and fiscal processes and the adapting of
[004] s that the agency was literally dependent now on the _____ processing, "and the whole wheels of the agency woul
[005] probably would have given him $700 for a comparable _____ ". Mr. Martin sold 21 tractors in August; in August o
[006] power beneath the hood of this grassroots- fueled _____ . #@# Their meeting at San Francisco is nominally s
[007] ve been unbroken for generations. #@# IBM has a _____ that can understand spoken words and talk back. Neve
[008] seized four operative weapons, including a Browning _____ gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle
[009] pilots, submariners, atomic researchers, and all the _____ -masters of our age as brooding mystics or hysterical
[010] ics; and therefore the atom was really just a little _____ ; and in mechanics the whole is no more than the sum
[011] rts. So if you are made of atoms, you are just a big _____ ; and since the universe is also made of atoms, it is
[012] a work here will pay off with a smooth, snug-fitting _____ when you are finished. Each completed locking bar sh
[013] s to the dry cleaners, lighter loads for the washing _____ . The need for reupholstering, redecorating, repainti
[014] switching arrangement reverses the cycle so that the _____ literally runs backward, and the heat is extracted f
[015] outside temperatures were above 40 degrees. Now, the _____ has been improved to a point where it is generally m
[016] wer, you may need added capacity. The body is a heat _____ , and 20 to 25 guests can easily double your cooling
[017] rating of a conditioner refers to how much heat your _____ can pump out of your house in an hour. A very rough
[018] in the form of such familiar equipment as the x-ray _____ , the electrocardiograph, and the diathermy
[019] , the electrocardiograph, and the diathermy _____ . Recently many doctors have installed ultrasonic vib
[020] expensive team trips? Are you utilizing vending _____ proceeds to help pay for your program? #TRANSPORTA
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[001] oods issue was hot long before it was on the market. _____ , from the moment the reports of the coming issue fir
[002] tholic educational achievement in retrospect, we may _____ see it as a unified whole extending from grade schoo
[003] uld not be deemed a violation of the anti-trust act. _____ , it is in the field of transportation that Congress
[004] to tackle history, economics and political science. _____ , the Belgians discouraged higher education, fearing
[005] people responsible for the Gabrielle Fund. It is _____ true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, "For
[006] s, and of promoting more adequate services for them, _____ welcomes this new important resource which will help
[007] delinquents, thugs, murderers, rapists, subversives. _____ no. Let every policeman and park guard keep his eye
[008] hire its labor in the West the struggle will be hard _____ ". The handwriting is on the wall. The only hope f
[009] we announced its coming, not once but several times, _____ we did. The engagement was supposed to be all set fo
[010] ng youngsters. The stage is constantly full of them; _____ , there are never fewer than eight of them on stage,
[011] dway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, _____ . More than the fans of Pagnol's old films and of the
[012] riety of difficult and arresting physical movements. _____ , both "Journal" and "Signal" qualify as instructive
[013] ical of London audiences. At the end of the program, _____ , there was a demonstration that lasted for forty-fiv
[014] describes him as a former racing driver, and he may _____ have been, although I do not recall having encounter
[015] undesirable popular superstitions. There have been, _____ , many important and valuable gains from the developm
[016] inst the portrait of the Anglican clergyman, who was _____ portrayed as a man not particularly concerned with r
[017] [Holy] Spirit is absent from the soul, such a man is _____ of an animal nature; and, being left carnal, he will
[018] hen as yet she was a virgin. And even as she, having _____ a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a vir
[019] s description of Christ as the second Adam, who does _____ come to destroy sin, but whose work culminates in th
[020] warming ourselves with a glow of complacency. It was _____ a near thing, but somehow the inherent decency of Ne
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[001] PROVED FIELDING"# The rangy, Albany (Cal.) native, a _____ slugging sensation for the Flock last year as well a
[002] June. Members and guests will be in for an added _____ with the new wing containing 40 rooms and suites, ea
[003] e these weapons imply the possibility of such grisly _____ attack. The only way out of this state of affairs is
[004] e, have bedtime prayers, and Bible stories. To their _____ , the children all were eager and quite able to take
[005] hree-hour film. If that's all the Romans did, it's a _____ to me that Rome fell. After television, "La Dolce
[006] field tent set up for the guests. He expressed _____ to learn that pretty, blonde Patricia Holbrook, 16,
[007] n by the Soviet's successes in space. This shouldn't _____ the secretary; American taxpayers have been impresse
[008] y jazz forms and the music of the Negro churches. # _____ ADDITION# To help him on this religious aspect of pr
[009] moments of the festival. One of those delightful _____ additions, which so frequently occur in jazz program
[010] than for dramatic credibility, the jury, to no one's _____ , leaves the legal question unresolved. When the husb
[011] n period. Although modern scholars have expressed _____ that "the simple magic square of three", a mere "m
[012] tacker would have if he were to strike with complete _____ using nuclear rockets. It is relatively easy to go a
[013] change of nuclear devastation. Forces will survive a _____ attack, and these forces will give depth, or conside
[014] our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a _____ missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or
[015] deadliness of the .44 Magnum in a rifle comes as no _____ to me. At least five years ago, Tom Robinson of Marl
[016] stressing "you", which would imply disapproval; or _____ , which would set the patient apart from other people
[017] d over the Adriatic, they had taken Bari by complete _____ and now they were battering her, attacking with dead
[018] thing to do, try something- anything. Maybe you will _____ yourself. True! We are not all great artists. I,
[019] ts to get written about it will have to find ways to _____ the emotions, and there is no better way to do this
[020] ight be tempted today to attack the United States by _____ , even though we might sustain great losses, would it
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[001] to be the first in Billiken baseball history, as the _____ and White beat Southeast Missouri State College, 5-1
[002] the Ticker. That's our boy Bill. ... Jean Fardulli's _____ Angel is the first top local club to import that cra
[003] er, was among the court maids, chose a deep greenish _____ lace gown. Mrs. Fenwick Eustis, whose daughter was a
[004] nducted the 20-piece band in a series of concerts at _____ Lake park during the summer months. Mr. Brooks wa
[005] d champion honors of the 4- H sheep showman contest. _____ ribbons went to Stephanie Shaw of Hillsboro, Larry H
[006] mpion 4- H market hog, a Chester White. Also winning _____ ribbons were Bob Day of Beaverton, Tony Traxel of
[007] Shaw of Hillsboro and Lynn Robinson of Tigard. _____ ribbon for one dozen white eggs was taken by Nyberg.
[008] llar dinner, and Jody Jaross of Hillsboro also won a _____ ribbon. Barbara Borland of Tigard took top senior
[009] t firm, the Best Sanitation and Supply company, 1215 _____ Island av. Lee said he had told the jury that h
[010] Glimco's discredited taxi drivers' union at 1213-15 _____ Island av. The radiation station of the Chicago b
[011] n education. Advance publicity on the Los Angeles _____ Book does not mention names dropped as did the notic
[012] s postman. Publisher Richardson has updated the _____ Book "but it still remains the compact reference boo
[013] concert wore a name tag marked with a red, white and _____ ribbon. They enjoyed lemonade and cookies served bef
[014] sculptures to each group, went one of the Gallery's _____ -uniformed guards. In 45 minutes, the Gallery lead
[015] To an extent, the two even look alike. Both have _____ eyes and short blond hair. Both are 6 feet tall and
[016] n and cattle egrets and the Louisiana, green, little _____ and black-crowned herons who nest and feed there. Bu
[017] ontented and at peace. #@# It had begun with the _____ jay feather. Walking along the lake before breakfast
[018] rd that had lost it in flight. The winging spread of _____ had gone on, calling harshly, into the wood. The sma
[019] , calling harshly, into the wood. The small shaft of _____ had drifted down and come to rest at his feet. All d
[020] in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield. Would a _____ feather in a man's hat make him happy all day? Hardl
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[001] midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an _____ word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on
[002] team officials who received an engrossed copy of an _____ city citation and a pair of silver cufflinks shaped
[003] "I can remove the ball, can't I"? asked Palmer of an _____ . "No", said the
[004] . "No", said the _____ . "You must play it where it lies". "You're wron
[005] sion, the Planning and Zoning Board and other county _____ bodies use recording machines for all public busines
[006] e", board chairman Henry L. Bowden stated. But an _____ statement adopted by the 33-man Emory board at its a
[007] th is that higher education has never really been an _____ American Catholic project; certainly not in the same
[008] nt of a parochial school system has been a matter of _____ policy.
[009] policy. _____ encouragement is one thing, but the down-to-earth te
[010] officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the _____ tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to mak
[011] Pensacola a month ago, Player was leading Palmer in _____ winnings by a few hundred dollars, and the rest of t
[012] Ford Frick has ruled that Ruth's record will remain _____ unless it is broken in 154 games.) "Even on the
[013] to Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba; and one U.S. _____ said: "The key question now is which side picks up t
[014] es up to the break-even point. ## @ A top American _____ , after a look at Europe's factories, thinks the U.S.
[015] oken glass. The glass may seem trivial but Communist _____ hooliganism feeds on such incidents unless they are
[016] ems to have been cast in the role of pacemaker for _____ Washington's economic forecasters. Weeks ago he saw
[017] se itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista _____ , Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position
[018] abuse of some of the prerogatives of his office. His _____ term expired last summer. Some reports say he was re
[019] hey are available on microfilm. #ON THE JOB# A top _____ of the New Frontier who kept a record of his first w
[020] office he presided over 96 conferences, attended 35 _____ breakfasts and dinners, studied and signed 285
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[001] victory draought as they coasted along with a 3-to-o _____ . #SIEBERN HITS HOMER# Over the first five frames,
[002] -run explosion in the fourth. The Yanks also took _____ of three Cincinnati errors. The crowd of 32,589
[003] teams' home courts, they showed that the home court _____ can be overcome anywhere and that it doesn's take a
[004] ithin an industry and fail to give it the short-term _____ which it often needs. #NOTHING TO FEAR# Peterson s
[005] ilders were "resistance to high interest rates, cost _____ of buying over renting has narrowed, shelter market
[006] aps even panic- and is certain to try to exploit the _____ he now believes he holds. Moreover, the President is
[007] ders above Maris".) Hitting, Mantle has an immediate _____ because he bats both left-handed and right-handed,
[008] nsists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any _____ to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the card
[009] as a practical strategy are formidable. Its primary _____ is that it is a moral choice; one which, should it f
[010] writers are bewitched by the apparently overwhelming _____ an attacker would have if he were to strike with com
[011] , because this vulnerability is mutual, it is to the _____ of neither side to destroy the opponent's cities, at
[012] air provides them with passive protection by taking _____ of the gravest weakness of long-range ballistic miss
[013] iors the use of the entire ring at the show- a great _____ to them! Before the Juniors entered the ring th
[014] boat with relative ease, wherein lies their greatest _____ . Their cost is not beyond the hopes of the American
[015] oulevards that will show off its treasures to better _____ - the great domes and graceful spires of its mosques,
[016] parate systems for living and sleeping areas has the _____ of permitting individual zone control. _THE HEAT PUM
[017] and accomplished decorators could not have had the _____ of school training since interior design courses wer
[018] ntitles them? Are they encouraged to take full legal _____ of these benefits? Have you publicized the cents-per
[019] he northern, principal heating states. There's an _____ in having a firm like Tri-State headed by a lawyer.
[020] 20 lb., compared to 275-300 lb. for neon. The weight _____ , plus greater durability of the plastic unit, yields