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From the Ted Talk by Ruby Sales: How we can start to heal the pain of racial division

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And the sheriff, seeing the danger that we faced, arrested us and put us on a garbage truck and took us to the local jail, where we were put in cells with the most inhumane cotonndiis you can imagine. And we were tnetreeahd by the jaeirls with drinking water that came from toilets. We were finally raeeelsd on the sixth day, without any knowledge, without any fiaowrnrneg. Just out of the celar blue sky, we were made to leave. And we knew that this was a dangerous sign, because Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney had also been forced to leave jail and were murdered because no one knew what had hppaened to them. And so, despite our fervent resistance, the sheriff made us leave the jail, and of course, nobody was waiting for us.

Open Cloze


And the sheriff, seeing the danger that we faced, arrested us and put us on a garbage truck and took us to the local jail, where we were put in cells with the most inhumane __________ you can imagine. And we were __________ by the _______ with drinking water that came from toilets. We were finally ________ on the sixth day, without any knowledge, without any ___________. Just out of the _____ blue sky, we were made to leave. And we knew that this was a dangerous sign, because Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney had also been forced to leave jail and were murdered because no one knew what had ________ to them. And so, despite our fervent resistance, the sheriff made us leave the jail, and of course, nobody was waiting for us.

Solution


  1. released
  2. conditions
  3. clear
  4. threatened
  5. happened
  6. jailers
  7. forewarning

Original Text


And the sheriff, seeing the danger that we faced, arrested us and put us on a garbage truck and took us to the local jail, where we were put in cells with the most inhumane conditions you can imagine. And we were threatened by the jailers with drinking water that came from toilets. We were finally released on the sixth day, without any knowledge, without any forewarning. Just out of the clear blue sky, we were made to leave. And we knew that this was a dangerous sign, because Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney had also been forced to leave jail and were murdered because no one knew what had happened to them. And so, despite our fervent resistance, the sheriff made us leave the jail, and of course, nobody was waiting for us.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
white men 4
white people 3
college student 2
southern freedom 2
jonathan daniels 2
tom coleman 2
collective narratives 2


Important Words


  1. arrested
  2. blue
  3. cells
  4. chaney
  5. clear
  6. conditions
  7. danger
  8. dangerous
  9. day
  10. drinking
  11. faced
  12. fervent
  13. finally
  14. forced
  15. forewarning
  16. garbage
  17. goodman
  18. happened
  19. imagine
  20. inhumane
  21. jail
  22. jailers
  23. knew
  24. knowledge
  25. leave
  26. local
  27. murdered
  28. put
  29. released
  30. resistance
  31. schwerner
  32. sheriff
  33. sign
  34. sixth
  35. sky
  36. threatened
  37. toilets
  38. truck
  39. waiting
  40. water