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DIRECTIONS: Below, you will see 10 items. Each item contains 7 lines of text. In the middle of each line is a gap (a blank line). Which word fits in all of the gaps in each set? Use the drop-down menu to make your choice. If you choose an incorrect word, it will appear next to the drop-down list. Keep trying until you choose the right word. When you finish the quiz, you will see your score. Click START OVER to try the quiz again.
Which word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set?

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[001]                                  ecipient to fulfill a  _____  obligation by spreading the word  about whatever ghast     
[002] r, Kessler recites example after example of (rumored)   _____   decay and bad manners, thinking, apparently, that rea     
[003] xistence     By DR JOHN HABGOOD    One of the tasks of  _____  leadership is to draw lines which  should not be cross     
[004] ot only a Christian imperative but also the essential   _____  foundation for any truly human society. But it is the      
[005] ils which give cause for concern. Are there really no   _____   differences between contraception, embryo research,       
[006] ng so-called natural  methods of contraception. But if  _____  theology is thus to  take  account of biology, then it     
[007] ld take the main responsibility for teaching children   _____   and social values, an international survey published      
[008] fic  subjects than in character building and promoting  _____   values.  Yet most think curriculum subjects are less      
[009] r, a ringing denunciation of the  modern world and its  _____  relativism. 'For the Pope, it's all a  question of aut     
[010] ---    IND 07 MAR 95 / Enter priestly men, to fill our  _____  void:  Religious leaders are using the language of sec     
[011] ty law. There is a demand, in  these wicked times, for  _____  certainties and for a social  language that goes beyon     
[012] er and it is hard to avoid the  thundering voffices of  _____  reconstruction. And they're  coming not  from politici     
[013] s  and social structures'. This week we have a book on  _____   decay  and the family from the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan      
[014]  too thoroughly. And yet all that yearning for  a more  _____ , more fertile language with which to debate  social  c     
[015] rs,  like Michael Portillo, agonise publicly about the  _____  basis  for  their politics, they tend to end up by str     
[016] st  ambition of the right has been to retreat from the  _____   arena,  while the left has been forced from it by fai     
[017] inds are regarded with a sort of passionate  contempt.  _____  dilemmas are fought out in television soaps,  women's      
[018] mily story of Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy and Mrs  March  has a  _____  (usually delivered by 'Marmee'). The domestic  and  so     
[019] oney to pay  the family's bills, turned poverty into a  _____  virtue in Little  Women: 'Rich or poor, we will keep t     
[020] nother.' She herself once called this kind of writing ' _____   pap'. But the less pious side of her moralism is her      
[021]  young girls  how  to be female. It does have a strong  _____  tone, which even as  a  child can be hard to take. I l     
[022] tudy of the classical canon because of its  supposed  ' _____  virtues' - here the English reader inevitably thinks o     
[023] y connection with procreation. And there  was  another  _____  she found in Sade, which she expressed most  clearly       
[024] mal, supposedly realistic stories with a heavy-handed   _____ , rather than something that might take them out of the     
[025]  civilized in her tastes, she was a strong  minded and  _____  woman.  'Yes, Mary,' repeated Flora firmly, 'I am only     


	
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[001] nt you to take the two  young ladies for a ride on the  _____ .'  O we went. Quiet little girls, they were. They both     
[002] were. They both held my  hand. But when we came to the  _____ ,  they were too shy to  go for a ride. So we stood and     
[003]  shy to  go for a ride. So we stood and watched. Those  _____   were  so beautiful! They were a lovely silver-grey co     
[004] ng themselves. I don't know why, but when I saw  those  _____ , with their little feet and their  eyes - so gentle -      
[005] .  But  all the rest of the day I thought about  those  _____ . I had nothing but                                         
[006]                                    . I had nothing but  _____  on my mind. I felt I  would burst if I didn't tell som     
[007] on  as the lights were out, I could see them again. My  _____ ,  with their neat little feet and sad eyes.  Well, mad     
[008]  the journey in Egypt  over  the hills on the backs of  _____  and down to the Valley of  Kings. . . sitting on Croag     
[009] nt you to take the two  young ladies for a ride on the  _____ .'  O we went. Quiet little girls, they were. They both     
[010] were. They both held my  hand. But when we came to the  _____ ,  they were too shy to  go for a ride. So we stood and     
[011]  shy to  go for a ride. So we stood and watched. Those  _____   were  so beautiful! They were a lovely silver-grey co     
[012] ng themselves. I don't know why, but when I saw  those  _____ , with their little feet and their  eyes - so gentle -      
[013] .  But  all the rest of the day I thought about  those  _____ . I had nothing but                                         
[014]                                    . I had nothing but  _____  on my mind. I felt I  would burst if I didn't tell som     
[015] on  as the lights were out, I could see them again. My  _____ ,  with their neat little feet and sad eyes.  Well, mad     
[016]  the journey in Egypt  over  the hills on the backs of  _____  and down to the Valley of  Kings. . . sitting on Croag     


	
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[001] log, designed by Los Angeles-based  Hershey  Group and  _____  out in October, is expected to introduce a  new  gener     
[002] rt of St. Tropez for their  latest vacation. They were  _____  back in London today to rejoin  her  children, William     
[003] nal rights of United States citizens currently denied   _____  process? Moreover, my provision does not alter the  su     
[004] er.  I don't think people have changed their behaviour  _____  to Aids  - I  think it's a media myth that students ar     
[005]  per cent  reduction over three years. The next cut is  _____  next term.  Students are expected to make up the short     
[006]   One in  three students are forced to go without food  _____  to hardship,  according to the National Union of Stude     
[007] cted more complaints  early  this week: all papers are  _____  to be sent back by tomorrow.  Anne  Barnes, general se     
[008] new broom, retired General Sir  John  Learmont, who is  _____  to report shortly on the Whitemoor and  Parkhurst esca     
[009] mpact.' Their reluctance to be identified  may also be  _____  to the fact that teaching assessment in  universities      
[010]  a far darker  set of  comic voffices - in some degree  _____  to the semi-  autobiographical  nature of the book its     
[011] extreme right 'The  Nazi, the Klan and the Aryan Man',  _____  out at end of 1995  from AK  Press. The Independent CO     
[012] re British  companies are losing trading opportunities  _____  to language  barriers than their counterparts in other     
[013] ls in your area at least a  year  before your child is  _____  to begin, and don't forget you can  apply  to as many      
[014] re notified, usually in  the term before your child is  _____  to start at the school, the  local authority (or gover     
[015] ed to write  at  an exceptional rate. This was largely  _____  to the BBC, by  whom he  was approached to write 'scri     
[016] and failing to sleep through  the  night wasn't simply  _____  to bad parenting! There was also, of  course, enormous     
[017] g  to counselling I realised that part of my stress is  _____  to the  fact that teaching has changed a great deal si     
[018] e tickets for  the theatre for the day  when Penny was  _____  to return, and I went on with my work. I  had  learned     
[019] Jim  Courier, his first match after a six-month hiatus  _____  to elbow  surgery. Then he bounced from the court at A     
[020] log, designed by Los Angeles-based  Hershey  Group and  _____  out in October, is expected to introduce a  new  gener     
[021] rt of St. Tropez for their  latest vacation. They were  _____  back in London today to rejoin  her  children, William     
[022] nal rights of United States citizens currently denied   _____  process? Moreover, my provision does not alter the  su     
[023] er.  I don't think people have changed their behaviour  _____  to Aids  - I  think it's a media myth that students ar     
[024]  per cent  reduction over three years. The next cut is  _____  next term.  Students are expected to make up the short     
[025]   One in  three students are forced to go without food  _____  to hardship,  according to the National Union of Stude     


	
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[001] NFL begins its 78th season today, there have been all   _____  of changes involving free agent movement, flashy  rook     
[002]  and 'Deep  Inside' dissect brief vocal samples in the  _____  of acid  house,  most of this album is spooky, abstrac     
[003] f  several  'insider' books, attempts to show that all  _____  of  misbehavior  is happening behind the cool marble o     
[004] Bruce Kurtz's survey  text on contemporary art.    The  _____  in which Rahat Khan, who was Nusrat Khan's  student  f     
[005] many disposals will  be  installed in a shoddy, unsafe  _____ , warned of fire hazards  and  polluted water. And peop     
[006]   a  quarter English. She is much more outgoing in her  _____   than  most Bruneian  girls, and the Sultan fell in lo     
[007] lley de Crist has kept a dignified  silence  while all  _____  of scholars and chroniclers havedissected  Dangerfield     
[008]  city  immediately. His good looks, charm and debonair  _____   impressed,  and it wasn't long before he joined force     
[009] ainor was delighted.' Donleavy was  not  amused by the  _____  of his book's publication, however,  and  spent the ne     
[010] an take advantage of materials in an easy-to-  digest   _____ . The advent of PC-based multi-media courses also  over     
[011] hrough serial techniques  towards a  more experimental  _____ . Thereafter, stimulated by the  company  of the studen     
[012] ) revealed a more intimate side  to his  compositional  _____  (the latter is one of a number of  pieces to  be relea     
[013] ----------    IND 04 MAR 95 / Arts: A chilling bedside  _____ : The  residency of  an artist at a teaching hospital,      
[014] d  how  Jim changed his way of  speaking at once. His   _____  was calm and polite, and he spoke slowly and  seriousl     
[015]   often to want help, but always with such a  charming  _____  that people helped him, even before he  asked. In fact     
[016]  'Oh it's  going  down your neck!' In a rough sisterly  _____  she bent his  head aside with one hand while she caugh     
[017]  Bemis  was a short  man with serious eyes  and a calm  _____ .  'Someone deliberately put water in the holds of the      
[018]  Perhaps I'll cut  his  ears o!' And then suddenly his  _____  changed. 'No,  Hareton, darling, don't cry! Kiss me, k     
[019] confident, intelligent expression on his face, and his  _____   was no longer rough.  Although I recognized the same      
[020] hat.'  'I have good reason to know,' I said, 'but your  _____  now  does not  impress me.'1  'She was my brother's wi     
[021] Sussex should speak  to her in a respectful and normal  _____ ,  that she almost forgot  to answer. But habit is stro     
[022] dders were,  enjoying themselves in an ordinary human   _____ , like normal  people. Really, thought Flora, when she      
[023] d the strangeness of enjoying  themselves in a  normal  _____ , crept off to their bedrooms for a rest. Mrs  Beetle s     
[024] of Biko's face.  'Good,' said Biko, in the same sleepy  _____ . 'Bring it to  the window over there and I'll read it.     
[025] sits to the dining-hall.  Boys,' he said in a fatherly  _____ , I have an  announcement to make. Clutterbuck, will yo     


	
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[001] , and he wanted to reestablish the nuclear  family in   _____  to nature-a building block of Jeffersonian democracy.      
[002] who sat the exam and, if the GCSE score looks  low in   _____  to other secondary schools in the area, the  compariso     
[003] 'A personal friend of  mine, this  quarry is. Almost a  _____ , one might say. It's a steep  drop to the bottom, a lo     
[004] ht sight of two men talking to her.  as his only other  _____ .' I was still angry with Heathcli, but it  was too lat     
[005] iasm. But I was going to say that  when I have found a  _____  who is willing  to have me, I shall take  him or her i     
[006] write just one letter, and  send a copy of it to  each  _____ ? Would they be impressed by my eiciency?'  'No,' said      
[007]  told Charles about it?'  'Certainly not! Charles is a  _____ . He might think I wanted  an invitation to go and live     
[008] d  inherit uncle john's money. But it seems this other  _____   has  inherited his 'whole fortune. Of course we shoul     
[009]  I was sorry to hear that my uncle,  my only surviving  _____ , was dead. However, the  inheritance would  give me in     
[010] s death all his property would pass to a  distant male  _____ . Mrs Bennet's father had been a lawyer,  and had only      
[011] his family. You  must tell me. I am almost his nearest  _____ , and I have a  right to know his plans.' 'But you have     
[012] ' sald the soldier. He was  also a captain. 'Are you a  _____ ?'  'Yes - his - his sister.' The captain laughed. 'He'     
[013] haved very politely to him. But perhaps he was a poor   _____  of Mr or Mrs Maudsley, and they were kind to him for       
[014] , and he wanted to reestablish the nuclear  family in   _____  to nature-a building block of Jeffersonian democracy.      
[015] who sat the exam and, if the GCSE score looks  low in   _____  to other secondary schools in the area, the  compariso     
[016] 'A personal friend of  mine, this  quarry is. Almost a  _____ , one might say. It's a steep  drop to the bottom, a lo     
[017] ht sight of two men talking to her.  as his only other  _____ .' I was still angry with Heathcli, but it  was too lat     
[018] iasm. But I was going to say that  when I have found a  _____  who is willing  to have me, I shall take  him or her i     
[019] write just one letter, and  send a copy of it to  each  _____ ? Would they be impressed by my eiciency?'  'No,' said      
[020]  told Charles about it?'  'Certainly not! Charles is a  _____ . He might think I wanted  an invitation to go and live     
[021] d  inherit uncle john's money. But it seems this other  _____   has  inherited his 'whole fortune. Of course we shoul     
[022]  I was sorry to hear that my uncle,  my only surviving  _____ , was dead. However, the  inheritance would  give me in     
[023] s death all his property would pass to a  distant male  _____ . Mrs Bennet's father had been a lawyer,  and had only      
[024] his family. You  must tell me. I am almost his nearest  _____ , and I have a  right to know his plans.' 'But you have     
[025] ' sald the soldier. He was  also a captain. 'Are you a  _____ ?'  'Yes - his - his sister.' The captain laughed. 'He'     


	
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[001] ir local bishops. The  new  guidelines appear to be an  _____  by the Catholic Church,  which  maintains its centurie     
[002] ps  surrounded the local police station in Brcko in an  _____  to  hand it over to police officers loyal to Ms. (Bilj     
[003] Boorman's Beyond Rangoon is a  remarkably  well-judged  _____  to educate an audience's consciousness  without altoge     
[004] ffling insights of  complexity theory. It's a quixotic  _____  - but Jencks cuts a  quixotic figure, long, lean, gent     
[005] ions between teaching and research, or of any serious   _____  to grapple with methods of financing. The contrast  wi     
[006] id not know  about  the camps, and why any large-scale  _____  at rebellion  'would  have been' doomed from the start     
[007] l ingredient of a successful school. The most  notable  _____  at achieving a balance of pupils was the  system  of b     
[008] e  first  to admit. The ignominy that he sensed in the  _____  - sized  up  straightaway by that astute figure, the s     
[009] ngela, then in her late twenties, would have  made  no  _____  to hide the blanks. I never found out why they were  m     
[010]  I4  was becoming exhausted, but I made one last great  _____   and at  last felt myself creeping  weakly out of the      
[011] about your  kind offer of help.'  In a Final desperate  _____ , the Thaarns sent their thoughts  along the tunnel bet     
[012] part of the country, I'd go much madder. In  fact, any  _____  by any of them to get  away from the farm  always make     
[013] nt a prize to him. I  won't.'  The Doctor made a brave  _____  to calm the situation, but  despite this, things were      
[014] dequacy in the  presence  of others. Therefore I shall  _____  to break down your social  reserve in the following wa     
[015] nd, and  he was within a metre of it. He made one more  _____  to  move, but he could not reach it. He cried and gasp     
[016] teel line at  the Hunter without success. At the sixth  _____  they  managed to attach the line. Then it took them th     
[017] d.' Her daughters listened in silence, aware that any   _____  to  calm her would only increase her annoyance. Elizab     
[018] ght, perhaps, wish to be informed why, with so little   _____  at politeness, I am rejected.' 'I might as well ask wh     
[019] kham looked a little embarrassed, and made no further   _____  to charm Elizabeth.  They separated at last with mutua     
[020] t thank me, let it  be for yourself alone. I shall not  _____  to deny that wishing  to give happiness to you was one     
[021] aught my eye and  raised his wine glass. I made a poor  _____  at a smile and,  as I did so, I noticed Lisa frowning.     
[022] ontentedly -  she understood that her mother's suicide  _____  had failed,  but that their secret was still safe.  Yu     
[023] er took Misha  and me to her flat because of a suicide  _____ . Well, that  girl  was Antipova. .  I keep trying to g     
[024] to cause any  damage to them. The Whites made one last  _____  to trick  Liberius?s men.  They began to attack one co     
[025] d large  numbers of  weapons in preparation for a coup  _____  against his  successor,  Biljana Plavsic, the Bosnian      


	
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[001]  less  imbued with  the singular power to bring either  _____  or shame on the  entire  group. Of course, Latinos are     
[002] Air Force, the only military  service  without such an  _____  in the capital. The Air Force Memorial  Foundation, ch     
[003] words high in die air when they saw them  pass.  "They  _____  you, Caesar,' said Maximus.  "No, Maximus, I believe t     
[004] , Caesar,' said Maximus.  "No, Maximus, I believe they  _____  you," replied the Emperor.  Maximus looked across at t     
[005] lations,' he said.  "I shall kill a hundred animals to  _____  your success." "Let  the  animals live and                 
[006]             your success." "Let  the  animals live and  _____  Maximus:' said Marcus.  "He won the battle.'  "General     
[007] we bring  greetings from Senator Gratchus. He waits to  _____  you  when you return to Rome."  When Maximus entered t     
[008] me:' Maximus said nothing. "You don't want this  great  _____ ?"  "With all my heart, no." "That is why it must be yo     
[009] o said. "The  young Emperor has arranged some games in  _____  of his  dead father, Marcus Aurelius. It's strange to      
[010] nto the arena, an oicial spoke to  them. "You have the  _____  of fighting in front of the Emperor  himself;' he said     
[011] Don't turn your backs."  "Go," Proximo said. "Die with  _____ ." His five best  gladiators walked past him and onto t     
[012] ey told  me he was dead. If they lie to me, they don't  _____  me: If they  don't                                         
[013]                                     me: If they  don't  _____  me, how can they ever love me?"  Maximus was lying awa     
[014] ew  it on the sand, next to his head. "You fought with  _____ ,' he  said.  The crowd was silent, then suddenly there     
[015] ust you, General," he said. "I know you would  die for  _____ , or for Rome, or ceremony of your family. I, on  the o     
[016]  the sand.  "He was a soldier of Rome, Lucilla said.  " _____  him.'  Quintus's voffice rang out, "Free the prisoners     
[017] enters  who burned excess wood shavings on March 19 to  _____   their patron  saint, St. Joseph. It has grown to beco     
[018]  less  imbued with  the singular power to bring either  _____  or shame on the  entire  group. Of course, Latinos are     
[019] Air Force, the only military  service  without such an  _____  in the capital. The Air Force Memorial  Foundation, ch     
[020] words high in die air when they saw them  pass.  "They  _____  you, Caesar,' said Maximus.  "No, Maximus, I believe t     
[021] , Caesar,' said Maximus.  "No, Maximus, I believe they  _____  you," replied the Emperor.  Maximus looked across at t     
[022] lations,' he said.  "I shall kill a hundred animals to  _____  your success." "Let  the  animals live and                 
[023]             your success." "Let  the  animals live and  _____  Maximus:' said Marcus.  "He won the battle.'  "General     
[024] we bring  greetings from Senator Gratchus. He waits to  _____  you  when you return to Rome."  When Maximus entered t     
[025] me:' Maximus said nothing. "You don't want this  great  _____ ?"  "With all my heart, no." "That is why it must be yo     


	
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[001] currently offers 53 channels. Those ads don't exactly   _____   'Seinfeld' dollars either, given that ratings formost     
[002] n local service of competitors with brand names  that   _____  consumer respect. The biggest, $50 billion AT&T,  is o     
[003] ow completed, will call for a stern new military-type   _____  structure within prisons and the prison service. The       
[004] ke away  my master's certificate,  if you won't let me  _____  a ship here, I'll go to - to Apia,  to  Honolulu - the     
[005] es  were now so rich and powerful that they seemed to   _____  the respect of everyone.  'Why do you let your brother     
[006] ienced, than you. Don't you think I  have the right to  _____  you?'  'No, sir, not just because you're older and mor     
[007] . . !  "Still nothing?" he asked Quinms, his second-in- _____ .  Quinms shook his head. 'He's been gone for almost tw     
[008] before and they knew what it meant. Maximus gave  the   _____  and a flaming arrow shot into the sky. Hundreds  more      
[009] ttle  higher on the hill.  From there he could see and  _____  his men better. The  enemy began to lose confidence an     
[010] r Marcus Aurelius sat on his horse, on the top of the   _____  hill, with guards on each side to protect him. He  wat     
[011]  killing them quickly. Maximus walked back  toward the  _____  point, sometimes stopping to speak to  a dying soldier     
[012] e you."  "How can I help, sir?"  "You're a man who can  _____ . You give orders, the men  follow your orders, the bat     
[013] us. "The soldiers will stay to protect  you, under the  _____  of the Senate."  "When all of Rome is yours, you'll ju     
[014] ny help that I gave them. I also became famous for my   _____  of language. 'Vanquished' was my first long word,  and     
[015] nk lights.  The large figure of Mrs Maudsley seemed to  _____  the  table from one end, and the thin, straight figure     
[016] ia in present-day Turkey.  While Alexander's second-in- _____ , General Parmenion,  led the main army into Asia by th     
[017]  given a letter from General Parmenion, his  second-in- _____ ; it said that Philip had been paid by the  Persian kin     
[018] they could attack  his main army, led by his second-in- _____ , Parmenion,  on its way to Persepolis. There was only      
[019] ing of Asia.  General Parmenion, Alexander's second-in- _____ ,  stayed in Ecbatana with 25,000 men. Cleitus, who had     
[020] . His best friend, Hephaistion, was  now his second-in- _____ .  At first Alexander was surprised by the warm welcome     
[021] exanders friend,  Perdiccas who had been his second in  _____  after the  death of Hephaistion and had royal blood hi     
[022] currently offers 53 channels. Those ads don't exactly   _____   'Seinfeld' dollars either, given that ratings formost     
[023] n local service of competitors with brand names  that   _____  consumer respect. The biggest, $50 billion AT&T,  is o     
[024] ow completed, will call for a stern new military-type   _____  structure within prisons and the prison service. The       
[025] ke away  my master's certificate,  if you won't let me  _____  a ship here, I'll go to - to Apia,  to  Honolulu - the     


	
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[001] ousehold equipment  to a stranger at your door. Get a   _____   for any money you do hand over. Only  a fool gives mo     
[002] t of your wallet, and she takes  it.  She gives you a   _____  for the amount, you pack your  shopping  into a box or     
[003] iatrist's  business card into Wright's wallet, and the  _____  for the gun  into  Wright's pocket.  'You shouldn't ha     
[004] ousehold equipment  to a stranger at your door. Get a   _____   for any money you do hand over. Only  a fool gives mo     
[005] t of your wallet, and she takes  it.  She gives you a   _____  for the amount, you pack your  shopping  into a box or     
[006] iatrist's  business card into Wright's wallet, and the  _____  for the gun  into  Wright's pocket.  'You shouldn't ha     


	
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[001] Oriole Park at Camden Yards yielded a 13-6 interleague  _____   to  the New York Mets and renewed concerns about outf     
[002]  Simply  'Recollection,' as a man might say, 'Death,' ' _____ ,' 'Sorrow'  for  a penitential phenomenon he grits his     
[003] ver the Angels before 26,200 in  3Com  Park. Seattle's  _____  to the Dodgers kept the Angels a game  behind  the Mar     
[004] ping  UCLA's Jermaine Lewis in his own backfield for a  _____  and  holding  onto a 37-34 victory in the season opene     
[005] m's about-  face  from last year's season-opening 11-7  _____  to Southern  Mississippi. 'Our team is better than it      
[006] Fresh  Cooking, which Friday said it expects to post a  _____  of about  10  cents a share in the quarter just ended.     
[007] lly or racially "inferior,"  they were threatened with  _____  of benefits and separation  from  their existing child     
[008] cked through a plate of spaghetti after the  Mets' 4-3  _____  in 12 innings to the Orioles tonight, jabbing his  for     
[009]  an emerging plant; much  decrease of autonomy and the  _____  of tenure for an  increasingly  overworked and underpa     
[010] l is built to cope with but will mean a pounds 33,000   _____   to the school budget. Hence the                           
[011]                        to the school budget. Hence the  _____  of the two teachers. This  is  before losses it will s     
[012] y school where she is a governor.  The  school faces a  _____  of around pounds 17,000, the cost of a  teacher. 'This     
[013] xford  middle  school: His children's school faces the  _____  of three or four  teachers because of budget cuts. His     
[014] wickshire alone, the county council is predicting the   _____   of up to 240 teaching jobs out of just over 4,000. Bu     
[015] ill,  is facing a pounds 46,000 budget deficit and the  _____  of three  out of 10 teaching staff. He will have to ta     
[016] r family's situation deteriorate in the 1980s amid job  _____   and  divorce. Her father, a tool-setter, has changed      
[017] se a wife from among my Bennet cousins, to  lessen the  _____  to the family when the sad event of your  father's dea     
[018]  of spirulina. You're also talking a potential  $3,000  _____  to worry about. I might as well have been hauling  dia     
[019] e Oriole relievers stumbled badly yesterday in a  13-6  _____  to the Mets, following starter Rick Krivda's poor  pit     
[020] n the  fifth inning and allowed two runs to absorb the  _____ . Six more  runs were charged to Alan Mills, a pitcher      
[021] osses. The school opened the 1896  season with a  44-0  _____  at Princeton. Virginia Tech's offense scored  touchdow     
[022] ctors  described  the brain changes and partial memory  _____  among the five  patients, 'for him, that decided it,'      
[023] ive  during  fish kills in the river had caused memory  _____  and other health  problems among the 13 people examine     
[024] Oriole Park at Camden Yards yielded a 13-6 interleague  _____   to  the New York Mets and renewed concerns about outf     
[025]  Simply  'Recollection,' as a man might say, 'Death,' ' _____ ,' 'Sorrow'  for  a penitential phenomenon he grits his