He shouted sharply, "Number off," and ___1___ they obeyed, "...twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty." They knew he knew without counting. This was just a line in his ___2___ he couldn't sacrifice. He said, " Your ___3___ then is three. We are quite ___4___ as to which three. You can choose for yourselves. The funeral ___5___ will begin at seven tomorrow morning."

First I spent five years in an ___6___ profession （the Indian Imperial Police, in Burma), and then I ___7___ poverty and the sense of failure. This increased my natural ___8___ of authority and made me for the first time fully ___9___ of the existence of the working classes, and the job in Burma had given me some understanding of the nature of imperialism; but these experiences were not enough to give me an ___10___ political orientation.

Mrs. Bertha Flowers was the aristocrat of Black Stamps. She had the ___11___ of control to appear warm in the coldest weather, and on the Arkansas summer days it seemed she had a ___12___ breeze which swirled around, cooling her.

Her skin was a ___13___ black that would have peeled like a plum if ___14___ , but then no one would have thought of getting close enough to Mrs. Flowers to ruffle her dress, let alone snag her skin. She didn't encourage ___15___.

One of the greatest and most justified criticisms of television has been that in ___16___ to the largest audience possible, it neglects minority audiences and minority tastes. This is still ___17___ true. But there is, perhaps, one program a day and many of course, on Sunday which an intelligent man or woman can enjoy and ___18___ interest from. In my trips east or west or north or south, I pick up the ___19___ paper to find this enjoyment or interest- ___20___ vain.

And if we apply to other attributes the criteria we would not want bright children anymore; we' d ___21___ want them to look bright-and get ___22___ school fast. We wouldn't be interested in beautiful women- ___23___ a good paint job. And we'd be opposed to the most ___24___ quality of man: his individuality, his ___25___ from the mob.

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