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Topics: Norman Vincent Peale, Japanese internment camps, straightforward, to tap into, made by versus made of versus made in Words: Protestant denominations affiliation interplay technique affirmations civilian to betray ancestry to mitigate internme

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Topics: becoming a lawyer in the U.S., famous lines from American movies, proper versus appropriate Words: attorney state bar admission bar exam to hurt (someones) feelings to beg frankly black market to refuse to have class contender bum to be uncon

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Topics: The FBI; Readers Digest; consent versus assent, concord versus accord, the long and the short of it Words: federal domestic intelligence serial killer child predator Internet hacker conspiracy secretive digest to condense excerpt humor consen

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Topics: Ask an American: Working as an actor in Los Angeles,
 nevertheless versus despite versus even though, to screw up
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 rejection
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Topics: Movies - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; The MacArthur Fellows Program; important versus significant versus critical; tough; navel-gazing Words: extra-terrestrial alien to be stranded to lure psychic highest-grossing foundation genius merit no s

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Topics: Ask an American - Rural doctors; lets start versus lets get started; continuously versus continually; chaos Words: intention rural soul mate to be captured to train prospective lifelong interactive monitor lecturer slides continuously continu

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Topics: Famous Americans - Thelonious Monk; the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps); pen name; tingling versus stabbing versus burning; gringo Words: giant self-taught to compose to get credit unorthodox record company nutritious

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Topics: Migrant Farming in the U.S.; American Cities: Palm Springs, CA; patronizing versus condescending; to right every wrong; to belong to versus to belong with Words: migrant worker manual labor slave plantation to deport tactic boycott toxic play

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Topics: American Presidents - Ulysses S. Grant; James Beard and the James Beard Foundation Awards; limit versus border versus confine; sound; life-affirming Words: particularly civilian to surrender Reconstruction amnesty to mar to annex destitute me

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Topics: American Authors - Erle Stanley Gardner and the Perry Mason TV Series; Boys Girls Clubs of America; who versus which versus that; It aint over till the fat lady sings; to go/be all in Words: detective self-taught pseudonym pulp magazine case

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Topics: Ask an American: Innovation; pain versus sorrow versus woe; manhood; to be over someone versus to be all over someone Words: show and tell to stumble across to trigger association unpredictable to kill creativity to undermine to stimulate aut

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Topics: American Playwrights - Tennessee Williams; how to become a real estate agent; thief versus burglar versus robber versus mugger; to sell someone a bill of goods; to hold up ones end of a bargain; momentum Words: hit menagerie dysfunctional fam

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Topics: Famous Americans - Mary Tyler Moore; Famous Songs: Dem Bones; to straighten up versus to straighten out; (youre) tripping; to get/fall into the groove Words: big break to be cast sitcom eponymous newsroom opening sequence encouraging awfully

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Topics: Famous Americans - Magic Johnson; the role of ham radio operators in the U.S.; understanding versus knowledge versus acquaintance; below the waist and below the belt; earth to (someone) Words: drafted stats abruptly MVP safe sex commentator t

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Topics: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band; the Dust Bowl; suggestion versus hint versus tip versus pointer; increase versus raise; How do you like them apples? Words: songwriting prolific talent scout title track patriotic nuke American dream d

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Topics: American Presidents - Harry S. Truman; to handle versus to address versus to deal with versus to cope with; naysayer; hold that thought Words: to enlist leadership qualities haberdashery atomic bomb to surrender to flourish public approval ra

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2012-08-29 English Caf 361 Download Podcast Tags: English Caf Audio Index: 33:19 Topics: Ask an American The global economy; insidious versus vile versus despicable; lock and load; fancy versus fanciful Words: index relative quarter close industriali

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Topics: Famous Americans Ralph Nader; how to become an astronaut; with reference to versus with regard to versus according to; to confront versus to encounter; In God We Trust Words: critique to discredit traffic fatality inspiring social cause to lo

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Topics: Leopold and Loeb Trial; Famous Songs: The Itsy Bitsy Spider; tunnel versus channel versus canal; right versus privilege; binge Words: perfect crime to lure chisel ransom capital punishment on parole toddler itsy bitsy spout gutter washed out

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Topics: Movies Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Famous songs The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; to go on versus to keep on versus to move on; the suffix ship; to blow a raspberry Words: to guess interracial miscegenation head-on liberal to object to wr