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She had, she said, heard that the plant was closing. | closing | {
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It could n't close, she said. | close | {
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It could n't close, she said. | said | {
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She had raised a calf, grown it beef-fat. | raised | {
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She had, with her own work-weary hands, put seeds in the ground, watched them sprout, bud, blossom, and get ready to bear. | bear | {
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She was ready to kill the beef, dress it out, and with vegetables from her garden was going to can soup, broth, hash, and stew against the winter. | was | {
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She was ready to kill the beef, dress it out, and with vegetables from her garden was going to can soup, broth, hash, and stew against the winter. | kill | {
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She was ready to kill the beef, dress it out, and with vegetables from her garden was going to can soup, broth, hash, and stew against the winter. | dress | {
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She was ready to kill the beef, dress it out, and with vegetables from her garden was going to can soup, broth, hash, and stew against the winter. | can | {
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She had done it last year, and the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people were dependent upon these cans for food. | done | {
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She had done it last year, and the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people were dependent upon these cans for food. | were | {
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This did not happen in counties of North Georgia, where the rivers run and make rich the bottom land. | happen | {
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This did not happen in counties of North Georgia, where the rivers run and make rich the bottom land. | run | {
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This did not happen in counties of North Georgia, where the rivers run and make rich the bottom land. | make | {
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Nor in South Georgia, where the summer sun shines warmly and gives early life to the things growing in the flat fields. | shines | {
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Nor in South Georgia, where the summer sun shines warmly and gives early life to the things growing in the flat fields. | gives | {
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Nor in South Georgia, where the summer sun shines warmly and gives early life to the things growing in the flat fields. | growing | {
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This happened in Decatur, DeKalb County, not 10 miles from the heart of metropolitian Atlanta. | happened | {
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And now, the woman, tired and trembling, came here to the DeKalb County cannery. | came | {
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`` Is it so the cannery is going to close ''? | Is | {
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`` Is it so the cannery is going to close ''? | close | {
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O. N. Moss, 61, tall, gray as a possum, canning plant chief since 1946, did n't know what to say. | know | {
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O. N. Moss, 61, tall, gray as a possum, canning plant chief since 1946, did n't know what to say. | say | {
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He did say she could get her beef and vegetables in cans this summer. | say | {
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He did say she could get her beef and vegetables in cans this summer. | get | {
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He did say he was out of cans, the No.3 's, but `` I requisitioned 22000 ''. | say | {
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He did say he was out of cans, the No.3 's, but `` I requisitioned 22000 ''. | was | {
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He did say he was out of cans, the No.3 's, but `` I requisitioned 22000 ''. | requisitioned | {
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He said he had No.2 's enough to last two weeks more. | said | {
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He said he had No.2 's enough to last two weeks more. | had | {
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He said he had No.2 's enough to last two weeks more. | last | {
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Threat of closing the cannery is a recent one. | closing | {
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Threat of closing the cannery is a recent one. | is | {
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A three-man committee has recommended to Commission Chairman Charles O. Emmerich that the DeKalb County cannery be closed. | recommended | {
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A three-man committee has recommended to Commission Chairman Charles O. Emmerich that the DeKalb County cannery be closed. | closed | {
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Reason : the cannery loses $ 3000 yearly. | loses | {
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But DeKalb citizens, those who use the facilities of the cannery, say the cannery is not supposed to make any money. | use | {
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But DeKalb citizens, those who use the facilities of the cannery, say the cannery is not supposed to make any money. | say | {
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But DeKalb citizens, those who use the facilities of the cannery, say the cannery is not supposed to make any money. | is | {
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But DeKalb citizens, those who use the facilities of the cannery, say the cannery is not supposed to make any money. | make | {
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`` The cannery '', said Mrs. Lewellyn Lundeen, an active booster of the cannery since its opening during the war and rationing years of 1941, to handle the `` victory garden '' produce, `` is a service to the taxpayer. | said | {
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`` The cannery '', said Mrs. Lewellyn Lundeen, an active booster of the cannery since its opening during the war and rationing years of 1941, to handle the `` victory garden '' produce, `` is a service to the taxpayer. | handle | {
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`` The cannery '', said Mrs. Lewellyn Lundeen, an active booster of the cannery since its opening during the war and rationing years of 1941, to handle the `` victory garden '' produce, `` is a service to the taxpayer. | is | {
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And one of the best services available to the people who try to raise and can meat, to plant, grow vegetables and put them up. | try | {
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And one of the best services available to the people who try to raise and can meat, to plant, grow vegetables and put them up. | raise | {
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And one of the best services available to the people who try to raise and can meat, to plant, grow vegetables and put them up. | can | {
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And one of the best services available to the people who try to raise and can meat, to plant, grow vegetables and put them up. | plant | {
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And one of the best services available to the people who try to raise and can meat, to plant, grow vegetables and put them up. | put | {
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It helps those people who help themselves. | helps | {
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It helps those people who help themselves. | help | {
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`` The county, though, seems more interested in those people who do n't even try, those who sit and draw welfare checks and line up for surplus food ''. | seems | {
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`` The county, though, seems more interested in those people who do n't even try, those who sit and draw welfare checks and line up for surplus food ''. | try | {
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`` The county, though, seems more interested in those people who do n't even try, those who sit and draw welfare checks and line up for surplus food ''. | sit | {
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`` The county, though, seems more interested in those people who do n't even try, those who sit and draw welfare checks and line up for surplus food ''. | draw | {
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`` The county, though, seems more interested in those people who do n't even try, those who sit and draw welfare checks and line up for surplus food ''. | line up | {
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A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a. m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''? | begins | {
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A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a. m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''? | used | {
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A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a. m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''? | save | {
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A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a. m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''? | feed | {
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A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a. m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''? | asked | {
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A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a. m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''? | do | {
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`` What in the world '', echoed others, those come with the beans, potatoes, the tomatoes, `` will any of us do ''? | echoed | {
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`` What in the world '', echoed others, those come with the beans, potatoes, the tomatoes, `` will any of us do ''? | come | {
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`` What in the world '', echoed others, those come with the beans, potatoes, the tomatoes, `` will any of us do ''? | do | {
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Moss, a man who knows how much the cannery helps the county, does n't believe it will close. | knows | {
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Moss, a man who knows how much the cannery helps the county, does n't believe it will close. | helps | {
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Moss, a man who knows how much the cannery helps the county, does n't believe it will close. | believe | {
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Moss, a man who knows how much the cannery helps the county, does n't believe it will close. | close | {
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But he is in the middle, an employe of DeKalb, but on the side of the people. | is | {
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`` Do n't ask me if I think the cannery helps '', he said. | ask | {
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`` Do n't ask me if I think the cannery helps '', he said. | think | {
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`` Do n't ask me if I think the cannery helps '', he said. | helps | {
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`` Do n't ask me if I think the cannery helps '', he said. | said | {
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`` Sir, I know the cannery helps ''. | know | {
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`` Sir, I know the cannery helps ''. | helps | {
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Most of us would be willing to admit that forgiveness comes hard. | be | {
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Most of us would be willing to admit that forgiveness comes hard. | admit | {
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Most of us would be willing to admit that forgiveness comes hard. | comes | {
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When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''. | caused | {
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When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''. | is | {
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When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''. | say | {
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When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''. | forget | {
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There is one thing I know ; a person will never have spiritual poise and inner peace as long as the heart holds a grudge. | know | {
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"know%2:31:02::"
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There is one thing I know ; a person will never have spiritual poise and inner peace as long as the heart holds a grudge. | have | {
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There is one thing I know ; a person will never have spiritual poise and inner peace as long as the heart holds a grudge. | holds | {
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I know a man who held resentment against a neighbor for more than three decades. | know | {
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I know a man who held resentment against a neighbor for more than three decades. | held | {
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Several years ago I was his pastor. | was | {
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One night, at the close of the evening service, he came forward, left his resentment at the altar and gave his heart to God. | came forward | {
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