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...
Topics: American Presidents - Ronald Reagan; using suffixes; to persuade versus to convince; to bring around/round Words: to come to fame welfare incumbent whopping assassination supply-side economics laissez-faire trickle-down economics dtente to de...
Topics: American Authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and All the President's Men; Famous Songs Over There; to borrow versus to debit versus to lend versus to loan; using ago with since; ambivalence versus conflict Words: to cover implicated infor...
Topics: Ask an American: Saving the space program; point versus period versus dot; using no with a verb; all the same Words: vehicle astronaut orbit to hitch a ride to imply to stoke innovation golden era space exploration driven by to shift outlook...
Topics: Movies - King Kong; Famous Americans - Lance Armstrong; its sounds versus it sounds as if; acting versus pretending; gobbledygook Words: remake offering jungle shackles to gross cyclist triathlon consecutive testicular prognosis bracelet alle...
Topics: The O.J. Simpson Trial; to major versus to graduate; to pry; technically versus practically Words: notoriety key suspect domestic violence to turn (oneself) in to surrender to plead not guilty dream team DNA to goad damning to acquit divided...
Topics: Cigarette advertising and cigarette icons; how local government works; to assist in versus to assist with; calf versus cub; to hold forth Words: cigarette to sponsor slogan catchy icon rugged detrimental explicit county mayor city council jur...