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This time he delayed so long that some of the engages shouted frantically, but they held their fire. | held | {
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The horses were only several lengths away when he fired. | were | {
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The horses were only several lengths away when he fired. | fired | {
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The bullet flung Gray Eyes from his horse. | flung | {
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Our rolling volley swept most of the other riders from their mounts. | swept | {
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"a wide scope",
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"sweep across or over"
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But a few reached our wall. | reached | {
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I heard the whir of an ax and a Canadian 's face burst apart in a bloody spray. | heard | {
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I heard the whir of an ax and a Canadian 's face burst apart in a bloody spray. | burst | {
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I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian 's face became shattered flesh and bone. | saw | {
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I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian 's face became shattered flesh and bone. | rise | {
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I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian 's face became shattered flesh and bone. | fire | {
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I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian 's face became shattered flesh and bone. | became | {
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A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it did n't seem possible they were in flight. | leaped | {
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A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it did n't seem possible they were in flight. | firing | {
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A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it did n't seem possible they were in flight. | seem | {
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A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it did n't seem possible they were in flight. | were | {
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Men screamed. | screamed | {
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Oso reached up, jerked the buck from the bale and snapped his neck. | reached | {
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Oso reached up, jerked the buck from the bale and snapped his neck. | jerked | {
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Oso reached up, jerked the buck from the bale and snapped his neck. | snapped | {
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Other Indians were running at the ponies, shrilling and waving blankets. | running | {
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Other Indians were running at the ponies, shrilling and waving blankets. | shrilling | {
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Other Indians were running at the ponies, shrilling and waving blankets. | waving | {
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"move or swing back and forth"
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Reverend Jason got one, the Canadians the others. | got | {
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I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position. | saw | {
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I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position. | kneel | {
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"rest one's weight on one's knees"
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I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position. | twitching | {
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I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position. | shot | {
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I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position. | run | {
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The ponies were almost uncontrollable. | were | {
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The pall of dust they raised made it difficult to see when the Aricaras charged again. | raised | {
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The pall of dust they raised made it difficult to see when the Aricaras charged again. | made | {
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The pall of dust they raised made it difficult to see when the Aricaras charged again. | see | {
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The pall of dust they raised made it difficult to see when the Aricaras charged again. | charged | {
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This time more of them hurdled the barrier. | hurdled | {
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A small Indian dived at Montero, who caught him with a swift upward stroke of his rifle butt. | dived | {
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A small Indian dived at Montero, who caught him with a swift upward stroke of his rifle butt. | caught | {
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It sounded like a man kicking a melon. | sounded | {
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It sounded like a man kicking a melon. | kicking | {
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... | [
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Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales. | whipping | {
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Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales. | hurdle | {
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Although my shot killed his horse, he rolled off the bale on top of me. | killed | {
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Although my shot killed his horse, he rolled off the bale on top of me. | rolled | {
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I could smell woodsmoke, grease, and oil. | smell | {
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His eyes were dark, fluid, fearful, and he gave a sigh as my knife went in. | were | {
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His eyes were dark, fluid, fearful, and he gave a sigh as my knife went in. | gave | {
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His eyes were dark, fluid, fearful, and he gave a sigh as my knife went in. | went in | {
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Coming over the wall he had seemed like a hideous devil. | Coming | {
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Coming over the wall he had seemed like a hideous devil. | seemed | {
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Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint. | see | {
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Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint. | was | {
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Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint. | dressed up | {
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The Aricaras made one last desperate charge. | made | {
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It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses. | was | {
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It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses. | see | {
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It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses. | wheeling | {
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It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses. | tumbled | {
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It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses. | bleeding | {
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Others, badly wounded, gripped hands in manes, knees in bellies, held on as long as possible and then, weak from ghastly wounds, slipped sideways, slowly, almost thoughtfully, to be broken under the slashing hoofs. | gripped | {
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Others, badly wounded, gripped hands in manes, knees in bellies, held on as long as possible and then, weak from ghastly wounds, slipped sideways, slowly, almost thoughtfully, to be broken under the slashing hoofs. | slipped | {
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Others, badly wounded, gripped hands in manes, knees in bellies, held on as long as possible and then, weak from ghastly wounds, slipped sideways, slowly, almost thoughtfully, to be broken under the slashing hoofs. | broken | {
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Some gracefully soared from the backs of their wounded, screaming mounts to make one last defiant charge before the lead split their hearts or tore their guts. | split | {
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Some gracefully soared from the backs of their wounded, screaming mounts to make one last defiant charge before the lead split their hearts or tore their guts. | tore | {
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None of them reached our walls again. | reached | {
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The few survivors grudgingly turned away. | turned away | {
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In the distance we could hear the drums and the wail of the death song. | hear | {
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One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev. | put | {
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One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev. | was | {
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Mr. Kennedy replied : | replied | {
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`` I 'm hopeful that from more traditional exchanges we can perhaps find greater common ground ''. | 'm | {
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`` I 'm hopeful that from more traditional exchanges we can perhaps find greater common ground ''. | find | {
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The President knew that a confrontation with Mr. Khrushchev sooner or later probably was inevitable and even desirable. | knew | {
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The President knew that a confrontation with Mr. Khrushchev sooner or later probably was inevitable and even desirable. | was | {
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But he was convinced that the realities of power - military, economic and ideological - were the decisive factors in the struggle with the Communists and that these could not be talked away at a heads of government meeting. | convinced | {
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But he was convinced that the realities of power - military, economic and ideological - were the decisive factors in the struggle with the Communists and that these could not be talked away at a heads of government meeting. | were | {
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But he was convinced that the realities of power - military, economic and ideological - were the decisive factors in the struggle with the Communists and that these could not be talked away at a heads of government meeting. | talked | {
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He wanted to buy time to strengthen the U. S. and its allies and to define and begin to implement his foreign policy. | buy time | {
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He wanted to buy time to strengthen the U. S. and its allies and to define and begin to implement his foreign policy. | strengthen | {
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He wanted to buy time to strengthen the U. S. and its allies and to define and begin to implement his foreign policy. | begin | {
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He wanted to buy time to strengthen the U. S. and its allies and to define and begin to implement his foreign policy. | implement | {
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Last Friday the White House announced : | announced | {
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President Kennedy will meet with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev in Vienna June 3 and 4. | meet | {
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The announcement came after a period of sharp deterioration in East-West relations. | came after | {
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The heightened tension, in fact, had been a major factor in the President 's change of view about the urgency of a meeting with the Soviet leader. | been | {
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He was not going to Vienna to negotiate - the simultaneous announcements in Washington and Moscow last week stressed that no formal negotiations were planned. | negotiate | {
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He was not going to Vienna to negotiate - the simultaneous announcements in Washington and Moscow last week stressed that no formal negotiations were planned. | stressed | {
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He was not going to Vienna to negotiate - the simultaneous announcements in Washington and Moscow last week stressed that no formal negotiations were planned. | planned | {
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But Mr. Kennedy had become convinced that a personal confrontation with Mr. Khrushchev might be the only way to prevent catastrophe. | become | {
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But Mr. Kennedy had become convinced that a personal confrontation with Mr. Khrushchev might be the only way to prevent catastrophe. | be | {
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But Mr. Kennedy had become convinced that a personal confrontation with Mr. Khrushchev might be the only way to prevent catastrophe. | prevent | {
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That objective set the high stakes and drama of the Vienna meeting. | set | {
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Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war. | going | {
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Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war. | be | {
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The U. S. and Soviet heads of Government have met three times since Sir Winston Churchill in 1953 introduced a new word into international diplomacy with his call for a fresh approach to the problem of peace `` at the summit of the nations ''. | met | {
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The U. S. and Soviet heads of Government have met three times since Sir Winston Churchill in 1953 introduced a new word into international diplomacy with his call for a fresh approach to the problem of peace `` at the summit of the nations ''. | introduced | {
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