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Which word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt)

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[001] r. "In   the kitchen", he said. Leaning his Winchester  _____    the front of the house, he walked to the girl. "Get      
[002] tried to call back the face of the   man he had known.  _____  that other man he could rally   his anger;                 
[003]             that other man he could rally   his anger;  _____  this bent man in the chair he was   powerless.      Ga     
[004] h.      They passed ranches that were framed dark gray  _____    the black hills. Then at last the darkness began to      
[005] followed, pushing Lester to one side   where he backed  _____  the wall with the sleeve of   his jacket raised before     
[006] lling him.      The explosion of the rifle had crashed  _____  the   walls of the stockade and the deep echoes were s     
[007] ern from its peg, he shattered its   globe with a blow  _____  a post. He picked up the   powder canister and ran out     
[008] r her to shield   her, for spent bullets were thudding  _____  the rear   walls.      He peered from a loophole. Guer     
[009] time the grass turns green. First it was the   Nations  _____  themselves, then it was them                               
[010]                           themselves, then it was them  _____    the whites. And it's goin' to go on like this year       
[011] g horses would make   the position difficult to defend  _____  charging warriors.      The cooks had prepared one of      
[012] t and pulled her out of the saddle.      She came down  _____  him, and he tried to break   her fall. He grabbed her      
[013] he fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow    _____  the trees. But a moment later he brought his   horse f     
[014] b for you".      The girl tapped the quirt impatiently  _____  her   knee and glared at him. He took it without flinc     
[015] ot yours.   Mine. It must have got there when you fell  _____    me".      She wiped it off with the sleeve of her co     
[016] er. He side-stepped her blow and she   fell, stumbling  _____  the gelding. She finally regained   her balance and go     
[017] Rankin stepped   forward and swung the guard's own gun  _____  the   uncovered   head, hard. The man went over withou     
[018]  door. As he passed through   it Barton shoved his gun  _____  the man's side.      "One sound and you're dead".          
[019] ts of convicts.      Five miles.      In a small grove  _____  the river they halted,   turning deep into the protect     
[020] eeded   professionals,   men who knew how to use a gun  _____  men, who would   match the killers on the other side.      
[021] onitors played their   seventy-five-foot jets of water  _____  the huge seam   of tertiary gravel which was the mount     
[022]  pits, was partly deafened from the constant   assault  _____  his eardrums.      He was a big man, wearing a neat fl     
[023] s.      He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt  _____    the cold foothill air. Fat showed in loose rolls ben     
[024] eir limbs and leaves intertwined   in a coarse curtain  _____  the sun. Bushes and vines   abetted the rocks in formi     
[025] me way ...      She studied him hopefully, yearningly;  _____  the   limitless background of sky and wasteland it was     


	
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[001]  She   seemed irritated. "I thought I told you to stay  _____ ".      The half-breed eased the Winchester down and re     
[002]  at him. He took it without flinching.      "I said go  _____ , Joseph. You've got no business   up here".      The h     
[003] he state.      It reached Donald Kruger in his massive  _____  in   Burlingame. It reached the mines at North San Jua     
[004] her-in-law, Charlie   Keane, moved into the dead man's  _____ , the anonymous   letter writer took no chances on Char     
[005] d to duck beneath the man's flailing   fist, and drove  _____  a solid left to Jess's mid-section.   It was like hitt     
[006] ay, Stevens", he pursued strictly.   "I'll shove along  _____ ".      "Whatever you say". Pat swung into the saddle,      
[007]   How much of an accident could that be"?      Nearing  _____ , he jerked to attention at the distant   crack of a gu     
[008] ainst the   ceiling and led them back to their pass to  _____ . Mercifully,   it was still open. Like a man making a      
[009] he radio button. "Now,   Sweeneys, now. Let's take 'em  _____ ".      He hauled back on the stick and felt his cheeks     
[010] e fourth, a super production, had   been filmed at the  _____  of Louis Thor. The water in   Thor's big swimming pool     
[011] ave calmed down by that   time, she'd gone back to his  _____  on Bryn Mawr Drive,   parked in front, and walked towa     
[012] hen one day Uncle was slightly   indisposed and stayed  _____ ; his bride opened the store.   I was waiting in front      
[013] restaurant   in the French Quarter after which he went  _____  to get   into his costume to keep the date. Shortly be     
[014] His address",   Walter added, "is that great foundling  _____ , the American   Express. And I will greatly appreciate     
[015] tered,   "I can sell the outfit for enough to send you  _____    to your folks, once we find a settlement".      "Don     
[016] rning getting himself all   organized, then headed for  _____ . Maybe to beat up on   his squaw". Benson looked up an     
[017] he war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to   visit her  _____  with her. She came from Ohio, from what   she called a     
[018] t keep his eyes off her   when at school; when he went  _____  at night, he took   her with him in his mind, and she      
[019] h one   another. The first two or three days they went  _____    early.      All, that is, except Jack. He hung aroun     
[020] And if you get   sick, ask the teacher to let you come  _____  early. Daddy   left the car for me, and I'm going to t     
[021] ou will stay here thirty   minutes after the others go  _____  this afternoon and   work your problems".      And so      
[022] ed in at him and made faces   as they dispersed, going  _____ . He scarcely saw them.   His heart was pounding like a     
[023] rear steps to   the attic room which was to be his new  _____ . Airless   and dingy though it was, the attic represen     
[024] like   to hurt ... to beat people ... I want ... to go  _____ ".      These were the last words he ever uttered. Conv     
[025] fter I paid Monsieur Prieur   for Dandy, I brought him  _____ , but he was ill at ease   and ran away the same night.     


	
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[001] unning across the valley to   the trees that lined the  _____  creek. His legs pumped   furiously, his long black hai     
[002] again. This time more of them hurdled   the barrier. A  _____  Indian dived at Montero, who caught   him with a swift     
[003] s. On a shelf in the office behind the   counter was a  _____  radio dialed permanently on a station   which broadcas     
[004] nd me to my former existence.   The flat, hard cap was  _____ , but he thrust it to the   back of his head.      "Tie     
[005]  striped suits of convicts.      Five miles.      In a  _____  grove against the river they halted,   turning deep in     
[006] went into the house. Here,   she dropped the keys on a  _____  table beside the door   and went upstairs to her bedro     
[007] went upstairs to her bedroom.      On her bureau lay a  _____ , brass ornament of simple   design and faded engraving     
[008]  was more wiry than   truly strong. And his relatively  _____  hands and feet   gave him an almost delicate appearanc     
[009] the line, as he had to- if he knuckled   under to this  _____ -town clown?      "I'll get around to it a little later     
[010] ome   idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that  _____    happening during the day's drive. But they deliberat     
[011]  five Slash-B men followed them inside,   crowding the  _____  room. His face was stiff with anger   when they let go     
[012] g empty, with weeds growing high   in their yards. The  _____  half-heartedly tended fields   of men who'd spent more     
[013] rked   for $30 and found.) Rumor had it he slipped two  _____    rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademar     
[014] for you, Charlie. I'm sure   you won't mind doing me a  _____  favor".      Brenner's voice was oily, but Summers was     
[015] f the bar, running toward   an ell. Pat moved into it.  _____  rooms, probably for   cards, opened off on either side     
[016] stomach. Kneeling,   Cobb planted a sturdy knee in the  _____  of his back,   holding him pinned.      "Okay, Stevens     
[017]  and powerful. The pilots' heads looked   ridiculously  _____ . The control tower gave him immediate   take-off permi     
[018] It was going   to be dangerous. Eight aircraft in this  _____  box.   Please, dear God, make my pilots good, he praye     
[019] h. On unoccupied roadway the bottle shattered into   a  _____  amber flash.      "Aye-yah-ah-ah"!      The Indian was     
[020] ty machinery;   with more time I could have loosened a  _____  burr or   cotter pin-      Suddenly and not a second t     
[021]  The bars were marked as Walter had marked   them in a  _____  black book kept in a nearly secret   drawer. The code,     
[022] f to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their    _____  rooms with their few possessions. Mary Jane Lerner   k     
[023]  Walter to tell her Nicolas's   whereabouts. Packing a  _____  suitcase, informing her   husband whom she found in Ha     
[024] th.      Mary Jane belonged to a world acquainted with  _____    attractive hotels and pensions in all the major and      
[025] elf-conscious   of splashing as he washed.      In the  _____  gallery used as the guests' dining   room, Meredith sa     


	
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[001] e hurt   her even to walk, for the sole was completely  _____  her   left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and     
[002] but he had never   seen any of them on foot and as bad  _____  as these two.      The girl dropped                        
[003]                    as these two.      The girl dropped  _____  to sleep. Morgan returned to   the kitchen, built a fi     
[004]      understand   that, but I don't savvy why you'd go  _____  and leave   your jobs in the first place".      "We go     
[005]  the   mare's neck. Ahead of him Gavin turned slightly  _____    the trail and pointed for the Gap, no more than a mi     
[006] he rifle around to fire into Mike's   body.      Mike,  _____  balance, managed to bat the muzzle away   a moment bef     
[007] onet. He   lifted a screeching war whoop. That touched  _____  a total   stampede. He darted inside the stockade and      
[008]  upon it.      He shouldered the blanket again, backed  _____ , and   tossed the lantern with its open wick beneath t     
[009] to Susan, grasped her around the knees,   dragging her  _____  her feet. He hovered over her to shield   her, for spe     
[010] f flame.   A sizable supply of powder had been touched  _____ . The   wagons and the coach were beyond saving and so      
[011]  could see them in my sights. They were about a   mile  _____ ; under me the ground quivered slightly. At   first the     
[012] les.      Although my shot killed his horse, he rolled  _____    the bale on top of me. I could smell woodsmoke, grea     
[013]  laughed. "I know him. I ought to. My father   ran him  _____  here six years ago".      Wilson didn't say anything.      
[014] t there when you fell against   me".      She wiped it  _____  with the sleeve of her coat.      "I'll bet that's as      
[015] r balance and got up in the saddle. Her hat had come    _____  and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string,       
[016] The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled    _____  after the second bend and curled gradually into   the      
[017] mpous air. When he saw me coming he turned   his radio  _____ . He made a show of rearranging my forms   on the shelf     
[018] ts controlled from the switch in the office, flicked    _____  and on impatiently. This sort of petty vigilance   ann     
[019]  cling to my past nor did I wish   to. I had signed it  _____  on the forms. My future lay   solely with the hall, ye     
[020] d".      Then Barton touched Carl Dill's arm and moved  _____ ,   up the river bank. He wanted a careful, uninterrupt     
[021] eel"?      "As mad as ever. But Kruger's men keep them  _____    balance, and they don't trust me. I'm an outsider.       
[022] ly.   She started to brush the dirt and bits of leaves  _____    her clothes. Her arm bled slightly, and the offended     
[023] For God's sake"!      "Looky". He pointed, cutting her  _____ . "See that   wildcat"?      She saw it then, the dista     
[024] t's get going", she said impatiently. "I"-   She broke  _____ , frowning. "What did you mean by that   rattlesnake ga     
[025] was probably the world's coldest   deck.      He flung  _____  Lord's hand and attempted to push past   him, inadvert     


	
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[001] eep out here on the couch.   We haven't slept together  _____  we started. I just   can't take any chances on getting     
[002]    "I'll bet that's as close as you've been to a man    _____  you were a baby", Wilson said.      He saw her hand st     
[003] ing, as   if waiting. The pulsing glow of a cigarette.  _____    they could see me but I not them, their presence in      
[004] hated Donald Kruger. It had drawn them together,   and  _____  his release from prison Dill had worked tirelessly   t     
[005] r almost any emergency. He had to depend   on himself,  _____  he was invariably miles and hours   away from others.      
[006] on, in keeping with the   traditions they had followed  _____  childhood, the whole   group settled down to relish th     
[007] e first   carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known  _____    they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley,       
[008]  four years older   than I and it had been a long time  _____  I had seen   as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex. There      
[009]  I've noticed the way you've been looking at   me ever  _____  we met".      "I guess we both felt it". I said.           
[010] n't think twice about   it. I've helped him along ever  _____  he was a youngster   hanging around his brother's tack     
[011]  stranger   as the distance between them closed.      " _____  when did they allow beardless kids into the   saloon b     
[012] hit town the previous day and had been drinking ever    _____ . That night he reeled out of Ma Murphy's dance   hall      
[013] n her, too (it may have been there   for a good while,  _____  she was twenty now; but if   it had been, it had been      
[014] at Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered   me"!  _____  then, and                                                  
[015]                                              then, and  _____  the pure grain had gotten   him divorced from every de     
[016] conning the freights for a long, long   time now. Ever  _____  the hooch, and the trouble with   the Quartet, and Mid     
[017] uble with   the Quartet, and Midge and the child. Ever  _____  all   that. It had been a very long time that had no f     
[018] He cleared his throat; it had been a long,   hot while  _____  he'd seen anything as nice as this   within grabbin' d     
[019]    The only thing unusual about the Old Man had long    _____  happened. But the past was dead here as the present        
[020]  was an idea. Miss Kizzie had been right snippy   ever  _____  they were married, though you'd have thought   a names     
[021] d herself and say that her actions were   "different",  _____  all actions had their own laws.   Only, this old man's     
[022] tired.      Doc had been under restriction to the ship  _____    the Bustard left Subic. This deprived him of liberty     
[023] the way he'd been hoping.      "I haven't had any luck  _____  I was a baby".      "Stake me", she said, "and let me      
[024]  Wales to speak and to listen. Three days   had passed  _____  Spencer's arrest and each day had   brought new danger     
[025] prayerbooks   and looked up only to watch the teacher.  _____  they   did not glance curiously at us once, I guessed      


	
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[001] n paused wearily. "You can't stay here with   me. It's  _____  and you said they'd be here by dawn".      "You can't      
[002] like I could not have explained. He was   a man in his  _____  forties, with graying hair, of medium   height; he loo     
[003] ch that he became aware of them, and   then it was too  _____ . They closed in fast, kept him   from reaching inside      
[004] d to the pension a week ago. Now, he   was just in the  _____  poems of Ho^lderlin and therefore   had most of the ni     
[005] a bed, and on his own terms. He used the blanket   for  _____  morning naps when hosts of the night had gone   off to     
[006] m before she ever saw him.   It had been five days too  _____  before he learned that   she'd gone through the weddin     
[007]  turn them, putting   the wagon against the storm. Too  _____ , he realized   that in turning, he had wheeled them on     
[008] rk, too,   and the teacher would have that person stay  _____  along   with Jack. "But I've got to take a chance on i     
[009] usk was beginning to gather when I drove home   in the  _____  afternoon.      But the next day- Sunday. Why, when I      
[010] ".      "Uhhu", she muttered.      "Come on, you'll be  _____ ".      "I think I'll sleep in this morning", she said      
[011] ng down the stairs,   would think they were going to a  _____  mass. It seemed   to him that if the Ferraros felt sur     
[012]  becoming confused. Perhaps it was because it was   so  _____ , and because she had no business to be here   now.         
[013]   in other people's nests ....      In the sunshine of  _____  afternoon, Lucy stood looking   at the ready guest roo     
[014] ietly so Maggie wouldn't   be scared. "Hurry up, we're  _____ ", he said, noticing   with a chill how gray the sky wa     
[015]  she went on. "I didn't know it was going to be this    _____ "!      The phone started ringing. "That's Mrs. Roberts     
[016] erday, but a dinner meeting   as well, that kept me up  _____ . But the rest of it,   the main part, wasn't based on      
[017] r out of my mind.      I was busy the rest of the day.  _____  in the afternoon,   I was up on Seven again. One of my     
[018] the   same moment, deeply rested, surprised to see the  _____    morning sun on the windows, which were wet where the     
[019] he bag. But the Anniston   boy had begun his slide too  _____ . He came into the   bag with his body and Mike Deegan      
[020] n it had given him   pleasure. He stole from his cabin  _____  that night and   crept out into a gusty North Pacific      
[021] at which I remembered, but I knew it   was already too  _____ . I drove the tractor on, not looking   down there; I w     
[022] he character of the party, she had gone.   She arrived  _____  and as she entered the party, noted   that gentlemen s     
[023] ul picture of   my career. (I watched it on television  _____  one night   last week and it "stands up" remarkably we     
[024] d, or garden or just wander through the woods in   the  _____  afternoon, accompanied by his dogs.      His dogs? He      
[025]  her modern daughter,   "You must have gotten in quite  _____  last night, dear.   Where were you"? The daughter repl     


	
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[001] t in a corner,   spread it on the floor and used it to  _____  a bag in   which he placed his booty.      Shouldering     
[002] ting   the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to  _____    a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold     
[003]   judge and executioner were riding the range in the    _____  of a single unknown figure that could materialize   an     
[004] he was standing with her back to the glass door.   Her  _____  was silhouetted and with the strong light   I could se     
[005]  Gra^fin's pension, her tears dried, signing a hotel    _____  and asking for a bath.      Mary Jane belonged to a wo     
[006] ician wore.      Dr. Louis Lalaurie examined the inert  _____  of the   slave on the parquet dance floor and pronounc     
[007] e all   that. It had been a very long time that had no  _____    and no end.      He was- as he told himself in the v     
[008] s,   where one man's property blended with the next to  _____    courtyards in which no one knew privacy. Love and ha     
[009] ve him slid the evasive shadow of a storm cloud.   Its  _____  was a heavy figure in a fluttering soutane.   But the      
[010] most Japanese girls, and had the   exquisitely willowy  _____  of the Japanese girl who is   lucky enough to be tall.     
[011] most undistinguished   studio to make one picture as a  _____  of punishment.   (An actor must have discipline.) The      
[012] en gradually  changing in the direction of the nuclear  _____ .  This transition  is thought to have begun in pre-ind     
[013] eties. As    industry replaces agriculture as the main  _____  of work,    younger family members typically leave the     
[014] keters. We are surrounded by marketing  stimuli in the  _____  of advertisements, shops, and products  competing for      
[015] y member(s) who transform the product  into a suitable  _____  for consumption by other family members  (e.g., food s     
[016] g it to the people shown in   advertising images. This  _____  of comparison appears to   be a basic human motive, an     
[017] e dissolved minerals and then   recondensed to  liquid  _____ .    Sparkling water is naturally carbonated due to geo     
[018]  regional cuisine has migrated to   many lands, in the  _____  of the restaurants of immigrant   cooks who assemble r     
[019] the music  did not directly stop the war, it helped to  _____  the social  environment which allowed politicians to f     
[020] , much of it pleasant, but  some of it annoying in the  _____  of noise pollution.   However,  a large percentage of      
[021] a process known as ultrasonic  drilling can be used to  _____  holes of virtually any shape in  materials such as gla     
[022] eading and your personal experiences.    1. Which life  _____  has the narrowest range of hearing?  Which has the wid     
[023] sses her own egg-laying rate. The  probability of this  _____  of brood parasitism is dramatically  greater in large      
[024] .    Thus a phrase is denoting solely in virtue of its  _____ . We may  distinguish three cases: (1) A phrase may be      
[025] e concepts  denote  two complementary abstractions and  _____  an adequate  means for  describing the reality.    The     


	
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[001] ". Clayton lifted him gently into the   saddle, like a  _____ . "I hate to leave my garden",   Gavin said. "They'll t     
[002] waiting for you. I understand how you feel   about the  _____  ...".      "The hell you do". Barton's voice was rough     
[003] Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her    _____  until she had personally confided her to the   care of     
[004]  all, that the forest was   in league with her and her  _____  ... that its sympathy   lay with the Culvers ... that      
[005] een at midday.   He'd come alone, without his wife and  _____ . He'd been   in an angry mood: Conchita had thought hi     
[006] y jointly   chose the rest of their "outfit". Soon the  _____ , the   dog, the cat ... and even the cheese, all joine     
[007] e strapping, blonde Brassnose   comport himself like a  _____  who talks about bogeymen.      "Aaa-ee! It is their tu     
[008] mined, the moving force in the group; and yet   like a  _____  among adults. "You think I got you and   Artie and Her     
[009] h the solicitude   of a middle-aged woman for her only  _____ . "Aren't   you hungry"?      "No, I'm not hungry", he      
[010] d seeming to scream at   him like a hurt or frightened  _____ , "How will I do   it?      On the fringe of the amused     
[011]  and the trouble with   the Quartet, and Midge and the  _____ . Ever since all   that. It had been a very long time t     
[012] ghtly different matter.   He remembered Midge, and the  _____ . But that had been   a time before all this, a time he     
[013] genia said. "For one thing   you can stop keeping that  _____  in starched dresses   and changed from the skin out ni     
[014] "Evadna Mae Evans   said she didn't put a thing on her  _____  but a flannel   wrapper until it was nine months old".     
[015]    It was so pretty and artless that she felt like   a  _____  again and would have enjoyed running out barefoot   to     
[016] ever permitted bare feet and she was decidedly   not a  _____  but une femme d'un certain age. Feeling   suddenly nea     
[017] in-a-carriage feeling   she had enjoyed when she was a  _____ . Now, some of   the acknowledgments were cautious, but     
[018] n the farms. She set out to make sure   that no Jewish  _____  anyplace in the world had to live   in a place such as     
[019] s strange stuff-   it reminded me of the pictures of a  _____ , but a                                                     
[020]                                                , but a  _____    who has never played with other kids and has lived       
[021] t her up   in his arms, still, small, as if she were a  _____  asleep,   I began to shudder with a terrible excitemen     
[022] bring only wickedness", she said and it was   not to a  _____  any longer but to another woman who   had come to skir     
[023]   of disasters, she now considered Cathy, an ominous    _____ -cloud on her horizon.      It was not that she dislike     
[024] st room. There were new yellow curtains,   bright as a  _____ 's life ought to be, a new bedspread,   lively with hop     
[025]  in   the breeze. A row of little hangers waited for a  _____ 's   clothes in the neatly empty closet; since Myra had     


	
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[001] bably would never know.   Certainly, she wouldn't dare  _____  her father afterward.   He would tell her not to pry i     
[002] in'   coward face-to-face"! he exploded. "That's all I  _____ "!      He never got that chance. For the unseen, ghost     
[003] obb's assent was tight. "You do the same. It's   all I  _____ , Stevens".      Separating, they took different sides      
[004] ung American has a bath next to his room and   I shall  _____  him if you might use it this once. And   then we shall     
[005]   "Because I'm asking. Most of the time I get what   I  _____  for".      Blue Throat winked at his six cronies. "The     
[006] enting his backside to the fire.   "Just dropped in to  _____  where Jed Hawkins lives. Can't   seem to locate landma     
[007] Don't you play hard today then. And if you get   sick,  _____  the teacher to let you come home early. Daddy   left t     
[008] I mean how'd you get her to do it"?      "Hell, I jist  _____  her".      "Jist like that"?      "Hell, yes. She's be     
[009] aunch,   and flicked glances at me. I thought he would  _____  us   to leave because Rachel and I were bare-armed, bu     
[010] as this".      I said quietly, gaining nerve, ready to  _____  any   question at all, no matter how intimate, ready t     
[011] nicate with". Pausing,   he waited for her to turn, to  _____  a question. She showed   no interest at all in the lif     
[012] ee with them this afternoon",   he said, "I think I'll  _____  the daughter if we can pay   her to come in every day      
[013] ul nudge. He's got all the   facts. I wouldn't want to  _____  for a postponement- it's   really just a routine thing     
[014] 's, then went into a cafe   called the Jour et Nuit to  _____  the way to Montmartre.   I never got there. I met Clai     
[015] th a steely eye and said, "What's   this for? I didn't  _____  for a Jeroboam of champagne".      I thought that was      
[016] t   have, even if he'd asked her.      But he wouldn't  _____  her- he wasn't the kind of man   who would force his w     
[017] Phil had   to look up into Mike's face.      "I didn't  _____  you to fight for the ball club", Phil   said slowly. "     
[018] at.      "Will you do it, Phil"?      "Do what"?      " _____  Whitey for a job".      Phil nodded. "Sure", he said.      
[019] ve who is applying to Hanford College. Why   don't you  _____  him"?      For once Cady Partlow wished Anne would yel     
[020] hings as you   find you need 'em".      He didn't even  _____  the cost of this collection.   After all, if you were      
[021] can't very well sidle up to people   on the street and  _____  if they want to buy a hot Bodhisattva.   Additionally,     
[022] s did your parents buy for you? What products  did you  _____  them to buy?  �Ģ Do you buy the same brand of product     
[023] es, their self-esteem often   suffers. Consumers might  _____  themselves questions   such as,  "Am I as attractive a     
[024]  author Dale Carnegie. He begins with  these  words:- " _____  the average American citizen today why the  Civil War      
[025] hen Mercutio lies dying in Romeo and  Juliet he says, " _____  for me tomorrow and you shall find me a  grave man," w     


	
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[001] ld have reduced her to this condition. He had   seen a  _____  nester wagons go through the country, the   families a     
[002] y the weary though watchful   eyes of two men posted a  _____  hundred yards away in   the windless shelter of the tr     
[003] nding in the open door   of the lighted orderly room a  _____  yards to Mike's left,   but he, too, suddenly made up      
[004] ls   in which to bring water from the spring. But what  _____    containers they found were inadequate. Many of them,     
[005] pt most of the other   riders from their mounts. But a  _____  reached our wall.   I heard the whir of an ax and a Ca     
[006] ts ....      None of them reached our walls again. The  _____  survivors   grudgingly turned away. In the distance we     
[007] ts rows of false-fronted buildings, a   water tower, a  _____  warehouses, a single hotel; all   dusty and sunbaked.      
[008] reet on which the hall fronted. The river   was only a  _____  blocks away but an unbroken line of   piers prevented      
[009] t. Kid Boyd was   unusually silent, Rankin watchful, a  _____  paces apart.   Barton finished his dressing and extend     
[010] n they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela   said a  _____  polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa   lightly on      
[011] mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these   past  _____  days, and she wanted to avoid falling into   any more      
[012]  taking   definite steps toward grappling with them. A  _____  days   ago, she would have thought such an expedition      
[013] ded. Not without a face-saving respite   of at least a  _____  minutes. To do so would make his   job well-nigh impos     
[014] nd to the cowboys   who had been faced with lay-offs a  _____  years earlier,   he was becoming a vastly different ty     
[015]  as the store owner.      He studied the problem for a  _____  seconds and thought   of a means by which it might be      
[016]  tines of the fork   bit into the floor. Jess wasted a  _____  seconds trying   to yank them loose. It gave Curt time     
[017] little trouble getting out, but it might delay   him a  _____  minutes.      "Where're you takin' me"? Jess asked wor     
[018] umbled   across out here in this wilderness. Already a  _____  hardy   folk from their own train were zealously chipp     
[019] now Penny spent some- and Carmer   must have dropped a  _____  dollars getting that load on".      Handing the money      
[020] t.      Cursing himself for having ridden out the last  _____    days without a rifle in his saddle boot, Russ drew       
[021] howed against the mountain.      The valley was only a  _____  hundred yards wide with   just about room enough for a     
[022] . Friend or enemy? The same old question. And   only a  _____  seconds to answer it.      "Zeros"! Todman said excite     
[023]  Thor-   asked me to stay a little longer. He wanted a  _____  stills   for magazine ads, he said. Everybody left and     
[024]  think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a    _____  minutes in your tub. That always relaxes me. Doesn't       
[025] scattered lavender patches   of limp-looking lather. A  _____  yards beyond the group   of men, a man's nude body lay