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

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[001] was no longer allowed to   make his regular trips into  _____  to see him, came often   and informally to the house.      
[002] y cost, he must leave   the dreary Pennsylvania mining  _____  where his father   was a pharmacist. And so he had, so     
[003] y, "I understand you came   from a little Pennsylvania  _____  near Wilkes-Barre.   How did you find out about this"?     
[004]  It had been there 50 years or more and   everybody in  _____ , black and white, knew of it. It   had just suffered a     
[005] re patronized by some of the best white gentlemen   in  _____ ".      Wilson stared at her. "My dear, you must be mis     
[006] more regular. The   inmates were white and from out of  _____ , avoiding local   friction. The backing from the white     
[007]  avoiding local   friction. The backing from the white  _____  was greater   and there was little publicity. Good wag     
[008] et high. The   clock you heard strike- it's really the  _____  clock-   was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on      
[009] ed; a piano tinkled.      "P. J."- as Ludie called the  _____ - was crowded with   summer people who came to the moun     
[010] ruck nine, he appeared   at the Council meeting in the  _____  Hall and insisted   that the couple would have to be p     
[011] .   ##   On shore "the freed slaves to despotism"- the  _____    dwellers- watched the ships and waited. The chevaux      
[012] rt at the Battery, pointed to a conflict between   the  _____  and sea power rolling in glassy swells as   the tide c     


	
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[001] h a way that some response was inescapable, he would    _____ ; if, as often happened, he had to repeat because   he      
[002] k before the hot fury, searching frantically   for the  _____  ...      Finnegan woke up. There was a hell of a noise     
[003]  voice pleaded.      "Don't Christsake me, buddy! Just  _____ . C'mon-   c'mon!"      ... I'm no hero. Did I start th     
[004] inebleau. Imagine the honor of it!      "What was your  _____ "? Jean Jacques asked, striving   to appear unimpressed     
[005] he Gospel"!      John stiffened in anger. "That is the  _____  the   ungodly will always make when the Church points      
[006] file.      "Sleep well"? he asked.      Andrus did not  _____  him. His face was bloated   with drugging, redder than     
[007] eport to the government in exile in London".      "His  _____ "?      "Ten thousand zlotys".      "Can he be trusted"     
[008]  a soldier in a very small way, Styka".      It was an  _____  that Styka understood.      Grabski's shanty was beyon     
[009] oked at the pair of them. He grunted a   sort of "yes"  _____ . "My cousin works at the Labor   Bureau. He can make y     
[010] bove everything   else, for the absence of the need to  _____ , to respond,   to be aware even of Stowey coming in or     
[011] her letter for the tenth time and finally prepare an    _____ . My memory has catalogued for easy reference   and wit     
[012] arney   ever use your brains"?      The fat man didn't  _____ . He got one of the menus   and brushed the spilled sug     


	
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[001] ffort   to understand and sympathize with his point of  _____ .      A half hour later the Vice President arrived. He     
[002] ds,   and then the front of the British army came into  _____ .      It was only hours since I had last seen them, bu     
[003] ng Island protruded Brooklyn Heights. It commanded   a  _____  over Manhattan and the harbor. A fringe of housing   a     
[004]   Startled, he jumped up to pull hen and case out of    _____ , and Alex went to the door. He opened it a crack   and     
[005] inating   all the gay songs, patter and dancing with a  _____  of   the best public relations. What remained lacked t     
[006] Black's front room, but drawn   curtains prevented any  _____  of the interior. Curt circled   the house and located      
[007]  nearly   to the floor and affording an unusually good  _____  of   the interior. Heading for the batwings, Cobb glan     
[008] ncher on the spot.      Reaching the porch rail beyond  _____  of the bar windows,   he feverishly scanned the busy s     
[009] s corner but near enough to keep the corner   in clear  _____ . A few minutes later I saw my Uncle's   car drive up a     
[010] we were   bailing desperately, a dot of land came into  _____ .   Foster Lukuklu Frayne made a sign over his heart wi     
[011] st have remained almost unsung.      Citizens took the  _____  that a lawman was expected   to risk his life on the o     
[012] t for her, and without   the respect he might lose his  _____  of her, too.      "What's the matter"? she asked sudde     


	
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[001] tion to his usual fear of being among   people of high  _____ . His fear of making some inane   or inappropriate rema     
[002]  been away so long. Mynheer, Sir   Francis, the valley  _____ , the very smell of the   river on his right purling al     
[003] about him. I think   the best bet is to go through the  _____  columns of   last year and see if any of the grooms ma     
[004]  in the county supervisor's   office".      "Maybe the  _____  editor would remember a good-looking   out-of-town bri     
[005] wn bride".      "That's an idea. Mrs. Calhoun has been  _____  editor   here for twenty-five years. The editor says t     
[006] hrough   several months. He tried to turn right to the  _____    page in each one, but interesting stories kept cropp     
[007] mmed hat, and I've noticed, in my small   study at the  _____ , that he rather smells of cosmetics.   The next week,      
[008] ge,   waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new  _____    that was threatening a beloved way of life. The wail     
[009] e age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal    _____  which is self-sufficient".      I remembered, too, the     
[010] f logs. A fine example of engineering   in a primitive  _____ .      "What is the scaffolding for, Brassnose"?      H     
[011] n a decade   or less, few men were left and a feminist  _____  had   sprung up.      "Karipo was great goddess, told      
[012] erished names.      Delphine was a pace-setter in high  _____ . She   was a top horsewoman and one of the city's most     


	
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[001] . That's to say, he was trigger   happy. He'd shoot at  _____  if it was the rear end   of a horse or his own sentry.     
[002]  running in panic. It just didn't occur to   Trig that  _____  serious would happen to him. Do   you get the picture      
[003] nd then he said flatly: "I'm afraid I can't tell you    _____  in particular about Kent House. You'll have   to find      
[004]  for him to leave this job now   without accomplishing  _____  would mean practically   the end of his career in the      
[005] one's dreams.      Two men pulled him off. Nobody said  _____ . Payne   hacked at their arms. There was a lady there,     
[006] here now. All those dumb 8-Balls   croaked. You can do  _____  with these dumb fucks   if you know how.                   
[007]               with these dumb fucks   if you know how.  _____ . They'd cut their mothers'   belly open. Give um the w     
[008]  state my hands were in, just as I didn't dare   to do  _____  about the priming. The gun would fire   or not, just a     
[009]  the Church"? And John's reply   was always the same: " _____  that affects souls is   the concern of the Church! We      
[010] Oh- we managed", she said. "I'm a little groggy.   Did  _____  happen during the night"?      "Few crank calls", McFe     
[011] been around.      One of the reporters called to him: " _____  new,   Lieutenant"? And he ignored him, skirting the p     
[012] aid: "I am sorry that my work prevents me from   doing  _____  with you today".      They assured him that they did n     


	
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[001]  newer developments that have taken place within   the  _____  few months which might have a bearing on the   future      
[002] ets that have started   to open up for the foam in the  _____  year or so seem   to justify the expectations. Furnitu     
[003] he looked back.   Sometimes they went south and rolled  _____  the tollhouse-   "Afternoon, Reverend"!- and crossed t     
[004]  a dog in the sky.      He meandered down Pike Street,  _____  the First National   Bank with its green window shades     
[005]  The thought came back, the one nagging at him   these  _____  four days. He tried to stifle it. But the   words were     
[006] and the woman were marched naked   through the streets  _____  a mocking populace. Before   them stalked the beadle,      
[007] ware"!   ##   John's thoughts raced painfully into the  _____  as he   read the letter he had just received from his      
[008] days gone by. Libertines   recalled the heroism of the  _____  and demanded: "Are   we going to allow the Protestant      
[009] ntrived impurities   than the worst days of the summer  _____ . It could continue   this way, hitting 106 and more in     
[010] ing a snake loose in   the schoolroom. Kate had walked  _____  the school on   her morning chores and had seen the wh     
[011] l of the   river on his right purling along to the bay  _____  fish   weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of     
[012]  the heights, and behind   it were sandy roads leading  _____  farms and hayfields.   Husbandry was bounded by snake-     


	
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[001] s also holds true if restorative   forces are applied.  _____ , it is recommended that   in such cases the sample be      
[002] ers will gain considerable importance   in the future.  _____ , we shall consider in this   paper the theoretical gai     
[003]  transformation is uniquely determined by **f and   we  _____  speak of the process as deterministic.   In practical      
[004] orque applied to the gyro   output axis decreases and,  _____ , the rate decreases.   Finally, when the accelerometer     
[005] parently, focusing. Even his neck seemed thicker   and  _____  shorter. His hands, which had been as   quick as a pai     
[006] like of the Vice President   would appear. It did not.  _____ , he decided he   was unfair to the young man and shoul     
[007] one day He will choose you as He chose me, long ago.    _____ , give Him your affection and store up His   love for y     
[008]   He must not fail to hear it. He was Papa's chosen;    _____ , nothing but good could happen to him, even   in God's     
[009]   he had gone through on the cross. In his sculpture    _____  it would not be possible for him to project   anything     
[010] e body had been removed for autopsy. The meat   wagon,  _____ , was not out in front of the house   any more, but the     
[011] They had been with Payne when   he was shot, could not  _____  have shot him from   above.      Take Gardner Willings     
[012] somewhere and wait his prey. Consider   him seriously,  _____ ? Intangibles entered, then-   hunches which felt like      


	
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[001] e crested, three-sectioned plate and had drunk   about  _____  the milk in its paper container.      "He's all right,     
[002] derstand and sympathize with his point of view.      A  _____  hour later the Vice President arrived. He   looked ver     
[003]  He had no idea where   Seward's room would be. In the  _____  darkness the banisters   gleamed, and the hall seemed      
[004] party. A Newfoundland sat solemnly   beside a doghouse  _____  his size. Stevie yearned for   a dog. He wondered whet     
[005] , except that one booted foot   caught in the stirrup.  _____  crazed by the weight dragging,   the dust, and the hea     
[006] and moving at a   much brisker pace it had still taken  _____  an hour for   their column to pass, what with the narr     
[007] earned that now", I said.   ##   We ran east for about  _____  a mile before we turned   back to the road, panting fr     
[008] nts he would escort them to   police headquarters in a  _____  hour. Before that, he   wanted to talk to the neighbor     
[009] owl of lentils in which he mopped thick black bread.    _____  of it dripped down his chin. He washed it down   with      
[010] hey passed close by the turn to Bishopsgate. A   scant  _____  mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless   sitting on     
[011] ied defiance and openly   flaunted his devotion to his  _____  sister, but he soon   saw, as did she, that this cours     
[012] e stood stiffly erect,   clutching the staff, his body  _____  hidden by the limp   cloth. Watson hardly looked at hi     


	
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[001] on trial. What are your   weaknesses?   Where will you  _____ ? How best to destroy your peace?      The Vice Preside     
[002] g as he went, "Thus   the Council deals with those who  _____  its laws- adulterers,   thieves, murderers, and lewd p     
[003] ut   one of the doors; she could dust the plants, then  _____    off suddenly and pick up an old novel and read from      
[004]  company than most people   I know", and he went on to  _____  some important news   to Alex. "Well", he began, "It s     
[005] it against the wall opposite. The heavy glass   didn't  _____ , but the top flew off; sugar sprayed with   a hiss tha     
[006] car coming from the east, and he felt as if   he would  _____  down and weep.      "Oh, no, not again", he said aloud     
[007] died.      Rev had known all along. Rev didn't need to  _____    the wax seal, read the contract and find out. He cou     
[008] s and his spine felt stiff and glass-like, liable   to  _____  like an icicle at any moment. "I've never   owned any      
[009] y poor red herring for   an inside job. Much better to  _____  a cellar window".      "Don't forget, there was the ho     
[010] ed for   somewhere beyond Hoag's control. He could not  _____    in on an armed man. He would have to climb back down     
[011]  reason that   they liked him and wanted to give him a  _____ . Only   an occasional tip turned out to be a phony, an     
[012] rom her back and squeezed out the water. "Which is   a  _____  as the area to search is less than a square   mile", s     


	
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[001] e vast philharmonic.   One of these days, I'm going to  _____  a gigantic   exhibition that will span everything that     
[002] d be fixing it. That's exactly how  the mayor  thinks.  _____  your neighborhood, find the responsible  parties,  let     
[003] eam. They must know how  to use  technology to access,  _____ , and interpret data, how to  understand and improve so     
[004] peated Cyrus Harding. "When Herbert is cured, we  can   _____  a general battle of the island, and have satisfaction      
[005] ons under 18 years of age.      East Providence should  _____  its civil defense   setup and begin by appointing a fu     
[006] f the first things he would do, he said, would   be to  _____  classes in first aid. Other steps would   be developed     
[007] Assembly, the power to act,   to propose action and to  _____  action without being   hobbled by advisers and assista     
[008] son and Jail Inmates,   with a leader busily trying to  _____  reformatory   occupants, defendants out on bail, convi     
[009] or structure of thought with respect   to which we can  _____  it and no part of reality,   as we know and apprehend      
[010] med for the expanding horizons?      Would you like to  _____  Teen Hunters Clubs, shooting   programs, and have info     
[011]  Conference called by   Heydrich   in January 1942, to  _____  the material and technical   means to put to death the     
[012] ials,   along with their other duties, were obliged to  _____    special demographic inquiries in selected areas and