Sharp words from a teacher,for example, can usually get a daydreaming student to put both feet on the ground.

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One is based on Scrabble, the board game where players try to form words from letters with different point values.

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Then Sarah Poore gives the students more to think about with words from a white Fredericksburg resident, Maureen Breckenridge.

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I thank you for that." We leave you with these words from another one of the friends, Nancy Lang.

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In other words, a person who is suffering from the effects of severe cold may seem dead,but still be alive.

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Baseball expert Richard Miller writes that many songs about other subjects -- such as love -- use words and expressions from baseball.

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It has some grammar structure and words from several other languages that are unknown or that have disappeared.

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Scholars who work on publishing make careful choices many of the plays about whether to use words from the First Folio,or the Quartos.

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They say that instead of government issue or general issue, GI came from the words galvanized iron.

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On it are words from the poem "The New Colossus" written by Emma Lazarus in eighteen eighty-three.

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So millions of people around the world have received the last words of advice from Ann Landers.

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President Obama's goal is that every student should graduate from high school -- in his words -- "ready for college and a career."

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As the cloud rises, Mister Oppenheimer remembers words from the Hindu holy book, the Baghavad Gita.

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Most of the words come from a vocabulary list that gets updated about every ten years.

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