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[001] thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he _____ there unattended while players and spectators wrangl
[002] n bleachers, where Ruth could not reach it. The ball _____ there, shining white on the grass in view of nearly
[003] is actually a process of informal co-optation; the _____ ministry is a means to recruit like-minded people wh
[004] e of trouble in the Mobile district. Their territory _____ to the north, near the sources of the Alabama, the T
[005] e just over the next rise; only- there was not. They _____ , with the birds hopping from branch to branch above
[006] sores, hair had scabbed off its body in patches. It _____ with its head on its paws and only its eyes moving,
[007] ts greenness. From high in the tree, the whole block _____ within range of the eye, but the ground was almost n
[008] memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that _____ before our eyes. The street that is full now of t
[009] . Because the responsibility for resolving the issue _____ with the President, rather than with his doctors, no
[010] one casually fed into our chemistry may induce us to _____ down our lives for a lover or a friend; one can take
[011] a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze. The twist _____ in using Bing Crosby's voice on the sound track whil
[012] steppes. Indeed, he looked more like a well-fleshed _____ brother of the Hospice of St. Bernard. Nor were his
[013] and at times preposterous. One day he assigned me to _____ bare a "plot" by the Duponts to supply munitions to
[014] elf was not yet saved. At least I had been unable to _____ hold on the experience of conversion. Try as I might
[015] ly have foreseen that five years of unremitting work _____ ahead of them before peace was finally made and that
[016] ad very little to do with it. It is hard not to _____ most of the blame for their failures on the pope. No
[017] Wales and churches in his native country. Behind him _____ the Low Countries, where men were still completing t
[018] osecuting the cause, for himself will procure it and _____ it down for us for the time". Greville proposed Quin
[019] chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman _____ awake most of that night, despairing of what he must
[020] uled him into his bedroom. Lewis warned him never to _____ a hand on him, and then Blackman asked for his fare
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[001] o Dartmouth man was surprised. Dartmouth students _____ other unusual diversions with equal sang-froid. For
[002] ad displayed more of them than usual so that I could _____ them. About 100 of the most important items he had
[003] the midst of a great busy city, people take time to _____ the beauty of natural reflection of artificial light
[004] play dice, and dance. Here in an evening Persians _____ many of the things which are important to them: poet
[005] uthern fiction. It is clear that, while most writers _____ picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old a
[006] nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and _____ it. The most effective political inventions seem to
[007] ny Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not _____ your Favour much longer". He closes his "letter" by
[008] m to greet her guests with the President. Mama would _____ the sight of the famous guests as much as anyone, an
[009] to the art of a remote past or an alien present, and _____ the carvings of cavemen and Japanese colour-prints;
[010] ce. The natural and primary aesthetic attitude is to _____ contemporary art, to despise and dislike the art of
[011] possible to understand literary works as well as to _____ them. Many will add that we may find our enjoyment h
[012] with religion. Gorton left England, he said, "to _____ libertie of conscience in respect to faith towards G
[013] to it, he does conclude that Americans increasingly _____ leisure without guilt, do not stress achievement so
[014] o compare the liberty and high standard of living we _____ in this great country with the oppression and frugal
[015] reach more remote markets and permit the consumer to _____ more produce at peak freshness and palatability. Com
[016] omise to make it weak". "Sit down", he said, "and _____ your drink and look for your checkbook later. The on
[017] ing. But they all said, "No, your time will come. _____ being a bride while you can". There was no room
[018] d a place and fuel to dry it. The oxen might as well _____ it. He examined the water marks on the iron tires
[019] a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't _____ yourself one bit on Eromonga. Indeed, you wouldn't l
[020] nkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to _____ conversing with me in rudimentary phrases. Her na
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[001] significant that the Catskills, which used to be the _____ playground for older teen-agers, a kind of
[002] playground for older teen-agers, a kind of _____ suburb of New York, no longer attracts them in great
[003] the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a _____ school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in
[004] pe the severe cold winds, but it could also occur in _____ as the result of lack of water or grass because of
[005] that played two or three times a week throughout the _____ , usually in the cool of the evening, before an earne
[006] it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the _____ , and the aristocrats would then ride around the inun
[007] session of Congress, State can expect only that its _____ guest will bite its hand when it goes to the Capitol
[008] nary. The men crying love poems in an orchard on any _____ 's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed
[009] made far more than just a bridge. On spring and _____ evenings people leave their shops and houses and wal
[010] eology and was looking forward to being present this _____ at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb. "Both childre
[011] an once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long _____ morning and watched without touching while a poppy b
[012] ping slit down its back. Every morning early, in the _____ , we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we c
[013] were still too young for school. In the heat of the _____ , the garden solitudes were ours alone; our elders st
[014] nty town were like this on any sunshiny afternoon in _____ ; they were like this fifty-odd years ago, and yester
[015] entioned as relevant. The season, between spring and _____ , belongs to life in its carefree aspect. Piepsam's f
[016] ell into the autumn for the firm to recover from the _____ 's help. "We'd give him things to deliver, letters, c
[017] lyan enjoyed writing the work. The theme of glorious _____ coming after a long winter of discontent and repress
[018] pair which overtook Thompson in the spring and early _____ of 1900. Whether or not Danchin is correct in s
[019] his 1788 operations. He stays inactive for half the _____ in front of Oczakov, a quite second-rate spot, begin
[020] and swim during the siesta period, which, during the _____ , lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when sh
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[001] assman, disdaining both the platform and the English _____ , harangued the assemblage in his aboriginal tongue.
[002] for films to take the first step toward fashioning a _____ of film, toward making the motion picture the intric
[003] of the entertainment had ignored the slowly emerging _____ of the film itself. Staggeringly condensed versions
[004] rect". The Egyptians are noted for elusiveness of _____ . When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle Ea
[005] himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a _____ as anarchic as Casey Stengel's. The reports of Presi
[006] ian morality, like any other form of resistance. The _____ used itself often makes very clear that this is only
[007] the Russians? What if the President himself, in the _____ of the military, "goes ape"? Or singlehandedly dec
[008] expert in his knowledge of the aborigines and their _____ . Finally, however, the arrangements were made and we
[009] eas the Preamble of 1787-89 expressed, as clearly as _____ can, the opposite concept, that they were acting dir
[010] xistence, they may be right, I don't know, but their _____ is too philosophical for me. I am not a philosopher.
[011] rce of pleasure; it is a mystique, and their private _____ is rich in the multivalent ambiguities of sexual ref
[012] gratified sexual desire. For this reason, too, their _____ is more forthright and earthy. The beatniks crave a
[013] se of its decided sexual effect. Jazz is the musical _____ of sex, the vocabulary of the orgasm; indeed, it is
[014] among the finest poems ever written in the Swedish _____ . It celebrates the unknown architect who designed th
[015] of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with _____ which can render them into validity in the eyes of o
[016] sult of the way in which the individual's command of _____ interacts with the other two. For this change is not
[017] and parodied other myths of the West, mixing themes, _____ , peoples and times in a master myth in which the old
[018] ieval players speak contemporary thoughts in archaic _____ ; while they move through the pageantry of the ancien
[019] vil War. These narratives of coarse action and crude _____ appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and l
[020] ve a German recitation before a convention of German- _____ teachers in Milwaukee. Carl and Paula met in Mi
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[001] ly driven furnaces. If one lives near a subway or an _____ parkway, the solution is to have one's wines stored
[002] , convenient, and paid reasonably. These things both _____ and, at the same time, continue contributing to, the
[003] ic. They are non-conformists on principle. When they _____ themselves it is incandescent hatred that shines f
[004] neration is to find a new way of life which they can _____ in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfo
[005] e, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall _____ very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.
[006] character of the imaginative consciousness tends to _____ itself in the presentation of artistic forms and mat
[007] ement that "Every idea that enters the mind tends to _____ itself". They seem to believe that a person will act
[008] n ideology that would destroy liberty. I cannot _____ to you the depth of my conviction that, in our own a
[009] the job". The Gross group had been formed for the _____ purpose of advising the Secretary General. Hammarskj
[010] can now be had without difficulty. Some of the poems _____ a mood of joy in a newly discovered love; others sug
[011] as a catalyst for the values that Malraux wishes to _____ , these values are no longer linked with the triumph
[012] lopment program can be imposed on a country; it must _____ the nation's own will and goal. Nevertheless, we can
[013] nt that so many Members from both sides of the aisle _____ their respect and admiration for our beloved Speaker
[014] as kindly and humbly as this humane gentleman could _____ himself, he asked to be remembered to my wife and ch
[015] ings may seem artificially arbitrary; they do fairly _____ a corresponding grouping of more variable material,
[016] l credit should be given to the Cost Section for its _____ and overt recognition of a vital distinction too oft
[017] l I came on the scene and made my remark. For what I _____ in my remark is something going on in me at the time
[018] ng. On the positivist theory, everything I sought to _____ by calling it evil in the first case is still presen
[019] plainly right in saying that such remarks do usually _____ feeling. But suppose that a week later we revert to
[020] ro, it is not the feeling that we primarily meant to _____ . I come now to a fourth consideration. We all bel
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[001] minor matters; the "objections stated at outrageous _____ "; and the frequent and rancorous verbal bouts, "unca
[002] nse of perspective has been created by designing the _____ of the columns so that those at the far end of the c
[003] l- from eight to twelve minutes- became the standard _____ from the year of Robbery, 1903, until Griffith shatt
[004] than the Piedmont; so that a line running down the _____ of the South marking the upper limits of tidewater w
[005] aff would occupy a balcony that stretches across the _____ of the room above Wisman and his staff. At General P
[006] de the dancer who is to perform the movement and the _____ of time he is to take in its performance. The only f
[007] rs, counts them and makes them many, yet cannot feel _____ in the number, however large. In a stream that turns
[008] to the effect that ten years might be a reasonable _____ of time for such a change. But I suspect that the ol
[009] ithin two miles of the target. This is less than the _____ of a jet runway- well within the circle of destructi
[010] the Englishman, No. 57 for February 15, ran to some _____ and was printed as a separate pamphlet, entitled The
[011] lly praised, there was considerable criticism of its _____ . It ran until past one o'clock. That was Tom's weakn
[012] nstrated, many critics would later point out, in the _____ of his novels. In this play there were so many chara
[013] fforded me the courtesy of his busy workday for such _____ as I may need, to speak about my background, my hope
[014] , the financial condition of the treasuries, and the _____ of the transition interval. Suitable plans range fro
[015] e at the end of their overseas service, based on the _____ of time served. #7. IN WHAT PART OF THE GOVERNMENT S
[016] ny's physical plant was enormously expanded, and the _____ and breadth of the Brown + Sharpe machine tool line
[017] le. Mars has been observed twice at about 3- cm wave _____ , and the intensity of the observed radiation is in r
[018] f the thermal radiation of the moon at 1.25- cm wave _____ by Dicke and Beringer (1946). This was followed by a
[019] of radio waves in rocklike material varies with wave _____ , it should be possible to sample the temperature var
[020] radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave _____ as emission from Jupiter. This sporadic type of plan
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[001] ter a wartime stint with Time-Life, to become bureau _____ for the New Republic. Both lived in Georgetown, we
[002] he was the king of orators, and both he himself and _____ Justice Marshall were bathed in manly tears, as Uncl
[003] dustrial uses hold a relatively minor position. _____ among the seed crops grown primarily for industrial
[004] umed by all livestock. Hay and pasture are the other _____ sources of livestock feed. Seeds are the essentia
[005] g demands for reforms in the American patent system. _____ among the defects they singled out were the complica
[006] ering the broader interests of the trade. One of the _____ features of this community of interest is the automo
[007] ntil the early fifties. Movement itself was the _____ and often the only attraction of the primitive movie
[008] ent of another nation". NORTHERN liberals are the _____ supporters of civil rights and of integration. They
[009] r causes him to hesitate. Wisman, who has had the _____ controller's job for four years, calls the signals f
[010] ffairs throughout the Confederation period. As first _____ Justice, his strong nationalist opinions anticipated
[011] st, plantation management. He served as Commander in _____ during the Revolution without compensation. ## J
[012] coln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in- _____ who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in
[013] ure are capable of making clear and distinct. A _____ characteristic of experience in the mode of causal e
[014] nds concentrated in a comparatively small area the _____ universities, colleges, and preparatory schools of t
[015] ied to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the _____ murder suspect. In order to exonerate himself, he is
[016] idate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's _____ editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of
[017] and that he has gained some acquaintance with the _____ literary authors who have lived in the South or have
[018] ing the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's _____ concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless
[019] the back country of Virginia and North Carolina. The _____ literary antecedents of the Snopes clan appeared in
[020] a of what never existed historically. It is the _____ merit in Copernicus' work that all his planetary cal
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[001] ek throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the _____ , before an earnest and partisan audience who did not
[002] Because Don was leaving the next day, I spent the _____ with him at Asia Center. The following morning Mr. M
[003] at strong convictions they will develop. In the _____ the former Oregon State science teachers met for din
[004] started out again to see Nara at night. In the _____ both of the men went with me on the train 30 miles t
[005] s, drink arak, play dice, and dance. Here in an _____ Persians enjoy many of the things which are importan
[006] edge of town, and familiar to the ear, morning and _____ , were the boys' coaxing voices, the thud of hooves,
[007] would be sent out to labor in nearby factories. One _____ , while a volley-ball game was being played in the ya
[008] ad to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the _____ , let alone the night. One should not, of course, plu
[009] roof to see the attendant take down the flag in the _____ . She used to tell me, "When I stand there and look a
[010] wear black. She wore grey every day, and white every _____ . Mama knew that she was out of mourning when she fin
[011] ntry posted on the west side of the river. That _____ , as I learned later, the students, enjoying that spo
[012] erally being friendly. "But what will you do this _____ , Mr. Davis"? asked a young mustached Frenchman. "It
[013] d borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that _____ . "You do not know me", she said in good English,
[014] field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that _____ on the stateless "line", digging a small trench arou
[015] off vast rolls of smoke into the ashen sky. Each _____ the students appeared with the soup kettle and sever
[016] me, hence their trip to "No Man's Land". On the _____ of December 27th, Esther noticed my pallid look and
[017] do me the last favour of reading them by 8 to-morrow _____ , about which time I shall come to say my sad good-by
[018] 's personal quarters, a portable house, almost every _____ saw an elegant banquet or reception. Lewis could let
[019] Constantinople as part of his espionage network. One _____ he passed around the banquet table a crystal cup ful
[020] as a souvenir. When a lady chanced to soil a pair of _____ slippers, Brigadier Bauer was dispatched to Paris fo
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[001] oney for slave property, but did he realize how much _____ and trouble the transportation of his Negroes to the
[002] eet, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own _____ . Two men show promise of playing prominent roles:
[003] o to national and international assemblies, and have _____ accounts that permit them to do so. As long as
[004] he best site on the ranch for a chapel and spared no _____ in erecting it. A visitor to the beautiful little bu
[005] f course all of these matters led to a volume and an _____ of the record beyond what ordinarily would occur".
[006] d to prevent prolixity, limit delays, and reduce the _____ of infringement suits. One of the A.L.A.M. lawyers o
[007] t of this struggle to maintain economic balance. The _____ of this type of organization in religious life, when
[008] cent above the cost in France, which would cover the _____ of transportation and handling, was all he charged
[009] ned a frolic in Paris or Hong Kong at the Treasury's _____ . They would be particularly displeased with the Stat
[010] nt allowances and had sworn an oath that, that year, _____ allowances would not rise a dollar. They didn't.
[011] edication to the status quo has been affirmed at the _____ of the fascinating but dangerous individualism of a
[012] istaking my hesitation, assured me that the hospital _____ would be taken care of by a leading merchant in Stra
[013] rent of the people ... to exalt General Gates at the _____ of General Washington was injurious to the latter. I
[014] e citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the _____ of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular
[015] st views. The desire to substantiate a thesis at the _____ of sound research technique smacks more of the propa
[016] present conditions or circumstances at their sole _____ and who are unable to obtain funds from commercial s
[017] OPMENTS# The new Warwick plant is being built at our _____ and under our direction. It will be transfered on co
[018] ave become idlers, social parasites that live at the _____ of their hardworking relatives. Bumblebees can thus
[019] Thus, the larvae of the intruder can develop at the _____ of the rightful inhabitants and the store of beebrea
[020] order to give Poland compensation in the West at the _____ of the Germans. By this time Churchill was not so