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Winter Olympics

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Amelia Earhart

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Money Wars

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keystroke

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The Doll Family

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straw bag; sack; bale; counter for sacks (of rice, potatoes, coal, etc.)

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set-off; offset; unwanted transfer of ink from a freshly printed sheet to an adjacent sheet in a pile; show-through; printing on one side of a sheet being visible from the other side

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idea man; ideas man; person of ideas

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Socialist and Communist Parties

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diving competition

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Brooklyn Bridge

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Summer Olympics

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to be seized with fear; to be seized with panic

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bouncily; with a stretch; with a boing

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Mary Celeste

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Don Juan; womanizer; libertine

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monkey wrench; adjustable wrench; shifting spanner

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Gunsmith

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interest in men; itch for men

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drug addict; junkie

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strong beginning and weak ending; anticlimax

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absolute advantage

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Hudson River

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Seven Wonders of the World

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Gustavo

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pin (esp. for mounting insects); setting pin

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millionaire

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liquor tax; tax on alcohol

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musical play; opera

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liver taken from a living animal

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trans-Atlantic; trans-Atlantic crossing

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ticket price

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Stanfield

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without an appointment

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mass-market newspaper; tabloid newspaper

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vaporization heat; vaporisation heat

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Royal Navy (UK)

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to leak down; to be omitted; to be missing

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major recession; serious (economic) depression; Great Depression

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positive and negative; +-; plus and minus

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lost article; something forgotten

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to crawl back to

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grape juice

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to strum (an instrument); to thrum; to pluck

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Incan Empire

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to draw (water); to scoop up; to dip up; to understand (someone's feelings, etc.); to grasp; to surmise

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to accuse someone falsely; to make a false charge

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tax-exempt; tax-free; tax-exempted

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sailor's suit

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Dian

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