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American youngsters will end up idle this summer. In some crowded cities it is a
growing cause for worry. (News Week, 1970)
7. The British, US and French ambassadors to West Germany, and the Soviet
ambassador to the German Democratic Republic met in
West Berlin yesterday
for the fifth session of their current series of talks on the West Berlin problem. (M.
S., 1970)
8. In the Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht draws a comparison showing
how Hitler and his henchmen resembled the American gangster Al Capone and his
gang. (L. M., 1969)
9. It has been reliably learned that two-metre-long pikes are caught in numerous
lakes of the Tumen region. (M. S., 1970)
10. Rapid thaw succeeded a frost. (M. S., 1969)
11. In 1964 the British electorate showed themselves in search of a change. (The
Times, 1966)
12. There have been few recorded cases in history when employers have wanted to
pay an increase. They are always reluctant. (M. S., 1968)
13. There will be a Channel tunnel linking England and France by rail by the year
1975. This was the confident prediction made in Paris yesterday by the Transport
Minister. (M. S., 1967)
14. So there is a problem. Why are people not paying to see films? (D. W., 1958)
15. He said there had been a very full investigation of the case by a senior officer
of the Metropolitan Police. (D. W., 1964)
16. The British Government action is all horribly reminiscent of the era of
appeasing the German Nazis, a policy carried out by the Tory Prime Minister, and
which encouraged Hitler to the moves which led to World War II. (M. S., 1969)
17. The British people's mighty vote for Labour was their endorsement of
coexistence abroad and a fair deal at home. (D. W., 1964)
18. The biting, wintry rain falling outside the General Electric Company's Hyde
Park, London, offices yesterday was a perfect match for the bitter feelings of the
pickets protesting at the firm's closures policy. (D. W., 1964)
19. A professor of Essex University was critical of the Government
Social
security policy and suggested that it catch up with the rest of the world. (M. S.,
1967)
20. It is all too clear that the Washington hawks are still reluctant to draw the
lessons from the defeats they have suffered. (M. S., 1968)
21. On the whole the "popular" press — with the New York Daily News as its
cheer-leader — is vociferous in its support of the President's policies and merciless
toward those who attack them. But among the so called "quality papers" led by the
New York Times, there is a growing mood of doubt and questioning. (The
Observer, 1966)
22. About 3,000 persons work in the big glass U. N. Secretariat building and are on
duty whether meetings are in progress or not. Typing alone occupies a staff of 32
even when the Assembly is not in session. When the Assembly is meeting, there is
a typist "graveyard" shift from midnight to 8 a. m. Like all large buildings, the U.
N. Headquarters has a cleaning staff that begins work when the other employees go
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home. Three hundred of them come streaming at 6 p. m. They take out two million
pounds of waste paper every year.
Even as they are emptying the waste baskets and wheeling away their loads of
paper, another staff is turning out the next day's working documents. These will be
largely waste by evening. (The N. Y. T., 1965)
23. A boy was drowned and another was missing last night after their canoe
overturned on the swollen river. (D. W., 3965)
24. After a fruitless day-long search, U. S. Navy authorities feared the missing C
121 Constellation has sunk without trace in the Pacific, (D. W., 1962)
25. Fear of ill-considered foreign adventures obviously ranked high in the thoughts
of American voters, (The Guardian, 1964)
26. He took the bell-rape in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. (A. Conan Doyle, The
Lost World)
27. Lady Boscastle gave a delicate and malicious smile. (C. P. Snow, The Light
and the Dark)
28. I was having a wash and a brush-up before starting out to go, (J. Buchan, The
Island of Sheep)
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