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- Harry Houdini, himself a master magician, crusaded against ___ whose seeming marvels of magic were actually fraudulent.
- When Felisa Rincon de Gautier became mayor of San Juan in 1946, her ___ concern was improving the living conditions of the poor.
- Isak Dinesen's story "Babette's Feast" describes the extraordinary ___ prepared by a superb chef.
- The ___ theory that the sun orbits the earth did not completely give way to heliocentrism until the sixteenth century.
- Boccaccio's Decameron is a collection of tales by a group of people who ___ in the country in order to escape the pestilence sweeping their city.
- Whether the moon is in ___ , closest to the earth, or in ___ , farthest from it, only one of its faces is visible to terrestrials.
- Known as the Pillars of Hercules, two ___ overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar separate Europe and Africa.
- Inside the potting shed, the rich smell of ___ filled the air.
- In Xi'an, China, archaeologists since 1974 have ___ more than two thousand terra cotta figures ___ two thousand years ago to accompany an emperor into the afterlife.
- Traditional designs of Pueblo pottery, which is made of ___ , record twenty-four centuries of history in the Southwest.
- Although ___ after failing to win a medal in the Olympic luge competition, the team voted to try again.
- When ___ winds blow south from Canada or Siberia, Chicagoans wrap up in their warmest clothing.
- The playwright R.B. Sheridan satirizes the ritual of dueling as Bob Acres, a rustic, challenges a rival in love but grows ___ when faced with the actual battle.
- In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, Sethe's last daughter makes appearances as a(n) ___ before becoming a person in the flesh.
- When Ben Jonson's character Volpone pretends to be on his deathbed, he makes fools of hovering ___ hoping to flatter him into a legacy.
- A very expensive item can stimulate ___ in English, "It costs an arm and a leg"; in Spanish, "It costs an eye from the face."
- The insistent heckling of protesters at the back of the hall upset the speaker, who was suddenly overcome by an attack of ___.
- The word "herb" offers a lesson in pronunciation: the British ___ the h while Americans treat it as a silent letter.
- In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the unflappable Guinan, played by Whoopi Goldberg, keeps her ___ no matter what perils her crew faces.
- Conflict in the ___ grows tense in Isaac Asimov's novel Foundation in a battle over control of a galaxy.
- Joan of Arc experienced a(n) ___ when in a vision she saw herself summoned to lead French troops to victory over the English invaders.