Topics: Redshirting; Mesa Verde National Park; to wrap up; to bother versus to interrupt versus to disturb; blind spot Words: to redshirt to count toward kindergarten cutoff to hold back peer prevalence cliff dwelling outcropping cave artifact to wra...
Topics: The Sam Sheppard Trial; Plymouth Rock; to counsel versus to consult; to hit (one/someone) head on; to scare the crap out of (one/someone); a bee in (ones/someones) bonnet Words: intruder to lose consciousness to come to jury to be convicted a...
Topics: Ask an American - The Appeal of Superheroes; property versus propriety versus proprietary; trust versus believe; little does he know; suffocated; to relish Words: emotional connection wish fulfillment fantasy primordial balance to seek justic...
Topics: The Lone Ranger; the Liberty Bell; uprising versus revolution versus rebellion; given; revenge versus vengeance Words: ranger mask lone sidekick strict moral code bell liberty to ring crack inscribed to proclaim inhabitant uprising revolution...
Topics: Famous Americans - Jimi Hendrix; the melting pot metaphor; U.S. state numbers and nicknames; by any stretch of the imagination; to play it fast and loose Words: habit broom ukulele by ear gig stage presence virtuosic to smash suspicious circu...
Topics: The Chicago Seven; American Authors - Horatio Alger; murderer versus killer versus assassin; ...and all; so forth and so on Words: defendant convention radical rally to incite a riot verdict intent rags-to-riches American Dream entrepreneuria...
Topics: Famous Americans - Aimee Semple McPherson; Famous songs - Turkey in the Straw; marriage versus wedding versus wedlock; otherwise; pronouncing contractions Words: evangelist to convert tent revival Pentecostal to speak in tongues divine healin...
Topics: Ask an American - Asian Immigrants; to note versus to notice versus to notify; assessment versus appraisal; to be full of (oneself) Words: professionalized immigration brain drain working class folks pre-collegiate multiplicity national origi...
Topics: Movies - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Mount Rushmore; threat versus menace versus peril; using should with have to; role reversal Words: loosely based on outlaw to flee sculpture to carve granite to draw to depict from the waist up to...
Ghost towns of the Wild West; dime novels and pulp magazines; kidding versus joking versus teasing; television show versus television series; phrase Words: Wild West boomtown bustling ghost town to seek (ones) fortune saloon prostitution dime pulp to...
