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[001] usical theater from mainstream popular culture, from _____ recording success, from hip, from cool, from now - l
[002] or attention, she overreached in her first television _____ ; it featured a staged scene of a class being taught i
[003] ent. Even a short-time visitor to the nation's chief _____ city is struck by its beleaguered atmosphere. Tour g
[004] h Street Seaport in New York. It is more active with _____ liners, container ships and brightly painted lobster
[005] t people start to abandon them.' ' Revitalizing older _____ centers in neighborhoods such as Annandale, Springfi
[006] ithout effort. If the destination is too crowded, too _____ or too much like every place else, then why go? The
[007] p-water ports. The eastern half is the glitzy, highly _____ district into whose clutches the first-time visitor i
[008] d exotic. In a novel that is paced and plotted like a _____ suspense story, yet attempts the thoughtful stance of
[009] ellent). Mixed audio review. Within the context of _____ pop, Genesis' first album with a new lineup in almos
[010] only -but the changes came too late for Lucy Young, a _____ pilot and a deskbound captain in the Navy Reserve at
[011] investment bank will finance the venture, Wellsford _____ Properties Trust, with nine properties totaling two m
[012] What we don't like is the frequency of such jokes in _____ advertising'. But the commission did not feel that
[013] le more than a cheap and tacky way of making crassly _____ building more acceptable. 'Ninety eighty- one was the
[014] hich is based in the private sector and run on wholly _____ lines. This revenue stream will surely grow, relativ
[015] inforcing: for example, the more that education seeks _____ funding, the more it will have to supply
[016] funding, the more it will have to supply _____ performance data. It is also clear that this is not j
[017] o the pinnacle of sport is littered with all sorts of _____ inducements and product endorsements, which many Chri
[018] the altruism of their faith with the competitive and _____ imperatives of modern sport? What do their churches
[019] ibition will bring together training providers in the _____ sector, as well as colleges that offer open or distan
[020] from 3,400 original works. This was the gift of the _____ Press of Taiwan. Sadly, only relatively minor support
[021] he world. The lanes of the global village, political, _____ , social, artistic, medical and many others, pass thro
[022] sions in countries where Britain was said to have no _____ interests. Posts in embassies were given to Departme
[023] in Ottawa. And if Britain attempts to become a purely _____ state with a foreign policy geared simply to enrichin
[024] get a cat? Not if Britain wants to be a political or _____ influence in Italy. An ex-minister still harks back t
[025] too; of its operating costs, 22 per cent now goes on _____ work, slightly more than on conventional political di
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[001] oing to.' They both packed that afternoon without any _____ . During the night they were awakened by shouts, the s
[002] ompletely and encourage each other. They would shout, _____ up and down the room, shake their heads, stand in dee
[003] research at Merrill Lynch & Company, explaining the _____ of billions of dollars this year into C-rated and non
[004] ompound in South Florida. Likewise, there has been no _____ to develop an attitude at the new Arthur Ashe Stadium
[005] ing until the front door is opened and fresh air can _____ in. The problem is that on hot days any blast of sea
[006] le and stares out a window as her MTA bus begins its _____ up the tree-lined streets and past the stately homes
[007] Too many people who find themselves single again will _____ into another marriage too quickly, and just repeat t
[008] and you cannot reserve your seats, but you avoid the _____ -hour crowds, and you are certain to reach London at a
[009] se of that, and the stress it can cause. I mean, the _____ hours, as everyone knows, are the worst times of da
[010] r working lives either getting up early to avoid the _____ hours or travelling in the middle of them with all t
[011] eli Jung, accompanied by his own text, is called The _____ Towards the Worst (1988). Such despairing pessimism h
[012] IT IS like a fairy-tale, but not the kind you would _____ to tell your children. A young girl grows up in North
[013] Pris reminded Roy. That doesn't matter. They'll both _____ out. But Isidore won't start the alarm by himself. It
[014] come home. It wouldn't have been right for you all to _____ off to London to see him, would it?' replied Bee. '
[015] steps. He had a sudden wish to tell her the truth and _____ away without ever stepping into the house. He had no
[016] he house, and at the same moment, Millie saw Harrison _____ across the paddock on Sid's horse and down the road.
[017] o safety. Or if there were an earthquake... She would _____ in among falling walls and pull the children out.
[018] ttle Elfine,' said Adam. 'Indeed, and does she always _____ about like that?' enquired Flora coldly. She consider
[019] streets until most of them were empty and the evening _____ was over. 'Let's stretch our legs,' Biko said at las
[020] ut a hole in the side of the house, all the air would _____ out. With no air in the house, the air in the plastic
[021] building site, an animal city, busy, busy, busy. The _____ hour. 'Wake up, Hu. Breakfast!' shouted Marwa. Marwa
[022] han usual this morning because he wanted to avoid the _____ hour, but it seemed as if everyone else had had the s
[023] ly made my headache worse anyway, and somehow, in the _____ to get ready to leave, 1 didn't manage to get to a ph
[024] our chance to live for the moment!' I felt excitement _____ right through my body. 'Yes!' I tried, getting to my
[025] was telling myself that it wouldn't be a good idea to _____ straight into another relationship? Chapter I3 Endin
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[001] k the city of Gaza after a two month siege. The whole _____ population was killed. Then Alexander tied the feet o
[002] d a future without him. Alexander died with no close _____ relative except his brother Arrhidaeus, who had learn
[003] ando unit. She becomes the target both of a sadistic _____ instructor as well as a sexist, cigar-chomping cabal
[004] oore's mouth, and in another an instructor tortures a _____ trainee by twisting his already broken leg. THINGS
[005] y, a slighty hefty colleague; the gewurztraminer, the _____ lead. JUST as every garden has perennials and annua
[006] ents are upping their scores more steadily than their _____ counterparts, although their scores remain lower than
[007] counterparts, although their scores remain lower than _____ students' in math and in total scores. They had tol
[008] ting themselves in the face of demands made by white _____ employers. In To 'Joy My Freedom, historian Tera W.
[009] the University of Cape Town, the first black person- _____ or female-to run the nation's leading research insti
[010] of more modern eras -thrown into closer proximity to _____ troops, and suffering even greater harassment, abuse
[011] SEALs commando forces and submarine assignments are _____ -only -but the changes came too late for Lucy Young, a
[012] household that could be quite fierce - and a lot of my _____ friends were petrified of coming round. It was that c
[013] galomania. This dreadful disease tends to strike any _____ in charge of a boat; the smaller the boat, the greater
[014] IND 31 JAN 95 / Fugitives from the book police: White _____ writers increasingly risk a tap on the shoulder by th
[015] off American literature syllabuses as a 'dead white _____ ' - sounded like the defensive hyperbole of the old po
[016] Dante onwards - in favour of moremodern works by non- _____ and non-white writers. 'All aesthetic and most intell
[017] misogyny', the most ruinous accusation a contemporary _____ writer can face; graver even, perhaps, than plagiari
[018] the modern book police. A white protestant American _____ , Updike writes in what, to many current academic cri
[019] t' tradition. His fiction is generally written from a _____ perspective, and frequently concerns sexual pursuit a
[020] s a social historian, whose books are a record of the _____ white middle-class generation to which - for better
[021] of each of these writers are the female ones. Their _____ protagonists are often, to my mind, idealised New Men
[022] the same edgy self-scrutiny may soon extend to white _____ writers approaching the subjects of gender and race.
[023] HIN TIES This is what passes in Hollywood as a young _____ outerwear statement, something with the beat of the
[024] because it's new. It's completely different having a _____ point of view in tutorials. They pick up on things we
[025] d tasks still weighs more heavily on them than their _____ contemporaries, so they are in no hurry to take on d
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[001] e kitchen, everyone was busy preparing bread, salads, _____ , vegetables, pies and cakes for the elegant supper af
[002] the station office, selling fresh vegetables, cheese, _____ and hot bread. The soldiers and sailors were the best
[003] cedonian noblemen liked horse-riding, hunting, eating _____ and drinking wine. They did not share other Greeks' i
[004] ouse-size stores that specialize in fresh produce and _____ - and don't even bother to stock toothpaste or soap.
[005] hey come because of unusual dishes like the Moroccan _____ pie known as pastilla, or in spite of them. Miss Aher
[006] he democratic process. " One week after the biggest _____ recall in the nation's history, Agriculture Secretary
[007] powers over companies found to have produced tainted _____ and poultry. The measure, which Mr. Glickman said wo
[008] g forces in Washington and influential lawmakers from _____ -producing states, who oppose increased Government in
[009] e mainly for what it tells about the weakness of the _____ inspection system. The administration did the right
[010] That's true even though no one knew whether that much _____ was in fact contaminated nor how serious the contami
[011] ve was to take a chance on permitting consumption of _____ that could contain the potentially deadly E. coli 015
[012] a bit thoughtful of others. YOU chose to stop eating _____ , not your parents. Your mother is probably a very bu
[013] joada,' which is black beans and different kinds of _____ . It is served on Saturdays, and of course the fish a
[014] e. You could try some 'koftas' or 'kebabs,' which are _____ , usually lamb, or 'falafel,' which is a kind of bea
[015] that people could eat. But if people do want to eat _____ , that's their decision. In my opinion, any killing
[016] white, or a roll - and then all sorts of salad and _____ or fish to go in the sandwich. Pubs often serve good,
[017] families have a traditional lunch. They have roast _____ - either beef, lamb, chicken, ham, or pork - with po
[018] les, and gravy. Grave is a thick sauce made from the _____ juices. *** CM: OK, I'll guide you from here to Mi
[019] a diet similar to that on Earth, but with less fresh _____ . The farms will be arranged in terraces with fish po
[020] hing with the beat of the street and the heat of the _____ . It's the way people grounded in the late-1970s respo
[021] r shaky on her legs, so the captain carried her baked _____ and potatoes home for her! Cranford people did not do
[022] arm Fire. As he sat down, he noticed a small piece of _____ cooking over the Fire. It was hanging from a large do
[023] ing from a large door key. So, the old man's cooking _____ for his supper, is he?' thought Dunstan. But where is
[024] extra reason to hurry home. He was going to eat hot _____ , which was unusual for him. And it would cost him not
[025] im nothing, because someone had given him a piece of _____ as a present. He had left it cooking over the Fire. T
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[001] Hindus'). They climbed 3,000, metres through snow and _____ . The army suered terribly from cold and hunger, and f
[002] ast for two days. She had promised her sons 50- cent _____ creams and the world "once Mommy has work." But Ms.
[003] the dog sleds groaning under the weight of tents and _____ axes and boxes of dried beef. It connects me to the
[004] mar (1968), and the penultimate collection Swords and _____ Magic (1977); a fourth and final omnibus will presuma
[005] o queue with the fairly large crowds if we wanted an _____ -cream or anything. I got a bit annoyed with all those
[006] ator Alan Winterson. The whole walk is over the thick _____ of the frozen Arctic Ocean, but it must be completed
[007] d before the warm weather arrives in spring and the _____ becomes to thin to walk on. The first part of the ex
[008] , in northeast Greenland. When they arrive in Thule, _____ -walkers from the Soviet Union, the USA, Japan, Austra
[009] ll different corners of it. They live on the snow and _____ of the Poles and in the tropical jungles of the equa
[010] Friday and come back on Monday morning. Or we play _____ hockey or go skating, or go fishing under the
[011] hockey or go skating, or go fishing under the _____ . All sport is very cheap in Russia. I: Is it? Uhm...
[012] aracter-building' experience is, in today's employment _____ - age, gathering a growing following as a varied, flex
[013] s hot on my back. I bent down to drink. The water was _____ cold, clear and hard. I bent down to drink again. D
[014] urney home across the great mountains, where walls of _____ rose high into the sky. As he came to the last and hi
[015] al in the universe. We freeze it into a huge piece of _____ that travels ahead of us. What could be simpler than
[016] ties, the sound of winds dancing over endless seas of _____ . All these things she heard in the music, and more -
[017] , through television cameras, the making of the great _____ shield that would ride ahead of the Magellan on its w
[018] ral. Many of them were supporters of the Black Hawks _____ hockey team. Boom Boom, one of
[019] hockey team. Boom Boom, one of _____ hockey's biggest stars, was a player with the Black
[020] ward Mattingly?' Pierre nodded. Mattingly was another _____ hockey player with the Black Hawks, though not on t
[021] ked at the blue green water. 'Howard Mattingly played _____ hockey for the Chicago Black Hawks. He was killed o
[022] answered softly, 'Have you had tea? Won't you have an _____ -cream? The coee and brandy
[023] -cream? The coee and brandy _____ -creams really are rather special.' She ran to her fat
[024] and feet and my back - especially my back - are like _____ . And I was always so warm in the old days. It isn't b
[025] ore to see, and you have not yet tried our delicious _____ -cream!' 'Oh,' cried the little governess, 'I have enj
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[001] he became ill with a high fever, perhaps because of a _____ in an icy river. His doctors feared for his life. But
[002] ch other and broke. On one occasion, Alexander had to _____ for his life. Alexander wanted to co conquer all the
[003] out which a student would feel ill-equipped (multiple _____ -gear bags, North African body paint and a supply of
[004] a new swimming bag to get "in spirit " with his new _____ team at Lake Forest
[005] team at Lake Forest _____ Club. He also bought two more bags for his swimming
[006] weekend place in Columbia County where they shunpike, _____ in ponds and spot deer on the lawn at dusk. Jennie a
[007] that teenagers like doing. If you like swimming, well _____ ; if you like going to dances, just go!' And if when
[008] ositive and excited about your future. If you want to _____ , you feel confident and want to take risks. If the w
[009] said the tramp quietly, 'your duck wanted to go for a _____ . It got undressed, and I'm looking after its clothes'
[010] ke from their long sleep in the womb: Baby Gym, Baby _____ and Baby Dance are the bare minimum; more ambitious
[011] eauty - the foot looks carved in wood, the specimens _____ in the kind of subaqueous twilit world that other ae
[012] es swimming there and science has told us babies can _____ around in other places, like test tubes. Other scient
[013] p!' shouted Jim, and the men jumped. Jim watched them _____ into the distance. He turned to the girl. His heart
[014] early in the morning,' Frances said. 'I'll go for a _____ early tomorrow morning,' I said, 'and I'll see if th
[015] let myself down quietly into the water, and I began to _____ strongly, but as silently as I could. I made my way
[016] e water, I could no longer see the boat. I started to _____ towards where I thought it would be. Then I heard a
[017] at me again, and for a moment I thought of trying to _____ under the boat. But I realized that it would mean c
[018] with shouts of happiness. Then we would enjoy a long _____ . 3 But now that morning had come, it did not seem to
[019] nd felt cold, too. 'Well, who's going to go in for a _____ first?' Harris said finally. Nobody hurried to be th
[020] Monday morning, we got up quite early and we went to _____ before breakfast. On the way back, Montmorency behav
[021] po stream, they rested on its bank. 'Come and have a _____ ,' said Ogugua to Aku-nna. 'With all these people watc
[022] ver. I might last twenty minutes - not enough time to _____ to shore. My left shoulder ached from the cold. The
[023] d into the nursery. She would rescue the children and _____ with them to safety. Or if there were an earthquake.
[024] other said. 'They blew up the bridge.' 'Can't anybody _____ ?'5 'Not in that wind.' 'The wind's quieter now,' I s
[025] was moving so fast that he knew it would be diicult to _____ , even without the bag. He turned around and slowly we
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[001] nd Jeffrey Lunden, 38 ("Wings") - has yet had a real _____ at Broadway. Two generations ago this would not have
[002] , an unstable offensive line, a star player who can't _____ the starting lineup, a 'franchise' player who's holdi
[003] s to fill, the strip malls will give way to shuttered _____ houses and cluttered pawnshops. For Alejandra, the 80
[004] f fire. Your tongue will go black, and your skin will _____ an' fall o, and all around ye will be the screams of
[005] a letter. Biko went to the front door and opened it a _____ , pretending to look sleepy. Lemick, the local detecti
[006] A strong wind was now blowing and there was a loud _____ of thunder. Suddenly rain poured down, and although w
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[001] n. 'He's in shock like his little brother. Look - his _____ is all wet. And his heart is going so fast!' 'Stay h
[002] man came into the room. He had clear eyes and healthy _____ and looked like a man who lived in the country. He no
[003] my. Unlike most of his soldiers, he had no beard. His _____ was fair and his light- coloured, wavy hair grew long
[004] d superbugs (called mimics) could make an audience's _____ crawl, the screenplay (by Mr. Del Toro and Matthew R
[005] o crab cakes are now three smaller ones with crisper _____ and creamier filling, and the sauce on almost every
[006] e has finished with me! *** Q: EMBARRASSED BY MY _____ - I am just at the age when I'm getting interested i
[007] rls, and suddenly I have ugly pink spots all over my _____ on my neck and face! What can I do to get rid of the
[008] lse seems to have these spots. Why can't I have nice _____ like theirs? Is there something I can put on these s
[009] some people put cream or grease or butter on burned _____ , and this in fact makes the burn hotter; or they wr
[010] of some kind on the burn, which ends up pulling the _____ off. And the other thing... I: I'm sorry to interrupt
[011] t a tan - get a little colour into your pale English _____ ! But you shouldn't take anything valuable to the bea
[012] eep looking good for the cameras!' At least Kimora's _____ is young and she doesn't have to put on much make- u
[013] day, and while he was waiting he got soaked to the _____ and almost froze to death. After waiting two hours
[014] itters, for whose clients it acts as a substitute for _____ . The practices of portraiture and of medicine are rel
[015] cine are related through a historical development of _____ as a symbol of the self: a person's hide contains the
[016] ded his self- portrait in anamorphosis on the flayed _____ that Saint Bartholomew is holding in the Last Judgem
[017] st Judgement. Saint Bartholomew was martyred when his _____ was flayed and he is the patron saint of doctors; he
[018] ually represented carrying a knife as well as his own _____ .
[019] . _____ - deep need not always mean superficial. The recent o
[020] s share of the affect side of parenting. And it says, _____ to
[021] to _____ , from the strong shall come forth sweetness, and bei
[022] example - delicious children with lovely art-directed _____ -tone juxtapositions. The same themes crop up in the N
[023] ofound way, that we are indeed all the same under the _____ because our desire is for protection (best supplied
[024] a 20- year editorial relationship. 'Velvet is back, _____ anti-
[025] anti- _____ , mimic nakedness,' that essay began. 'Like leather an
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[001] here, "The Fabulous Sports Babe," a radio talk show _____ , used to announce that she was broadcasting out of "
[002] glish bars in the San Francisco Bay area are playing _____ to formal trivia quizzes: two-hour team games, comple
[003] e sweating out a securities investigation. Will Durst _____ of PBS's "Livelyhood " ... If you're a workfare moth
[004] he priest Francisco Dumetz, who had been Vancouver's _____ at Mission San Buenaventura, in what is now Ventura.
[005] air (1990), Breviary of the Vanquished (1992) among a _____ of others. An album of very fine black-and-white phot
[006] nto the faculty system, and the high standards of the _____ institution apply to MBA students. 'We are part of t
[007] is from Season of Mists, in which the Sandman plays _____ to ambassadors from other mythical realms who are vy
[008] ng in the hall, as the guests were welcomed by their _____ and his housekeeper. From a dark corner of the stair
[009] seen so much life and activity. When it was fine the _____ and his guests went riding, visited places of interes
[010] ? Why was he here on' the top floor? I had heard his _____ showing him to a bedroom near mine, on the second flo
[011] away from the other guests, watching the dancing. His _____ , Sir William, came to speak to him. 'Mr Darcy! Are
[012] between two, I think: Lord Trimingham often asked his _____ for advice in this way, and it always surprised me. I