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From the Ted Talk by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Meet the women fighting on the front lines of an American war

Unscramble the Blue Letters

At the heart of this team was the one person who everyone called "the best of us." She was a petite blonde damyno, who barely reached five-foot-three. And she was this wild mix of Martha Stewart, and what we know as G.I. Jane. She was someone who loved to make dinner for her husband, her Kent sttae ROTC sweetheart who pheusd her to be her best, and to trust herself, and to test every limit she could. She also loved to put 50 pounds of weight on her back and run for melis, and she loved to be a soldier. She was somebody who had a bread maker in her office in Kandahar, and would bake a batch of raisin berad, and then go to the gym and bust out 25 or 30 pull-ups from a dead hang. She was the proesn who, if you needed an etrxa pair of boots or a home-cooked dinner, would be on your seepd dial. Because she never, ever would talk to you about how good she was, but let her character speak through aticon. She was famous for taking the hard right over the easy wonrg. And she was also famous for walking up to a 15-foot rope, climbing it using only her arms, and then shuffling away and apologizing, because she knew she was supposed to use both her arms and her legs, as the Rangers had treaind them. (Laughter)

Open Cloze

At the heart of this team was the one person who everyone called "the best of us." She was a petite blonde ______, who barely reached five-foot-three. And she was this wild mix of Martha Stewart, and what we know as G.I. Jane. She was someone who loved to make dinner for her husband, her Kent _____ ROTC sweetheart who ______ her to be her best, and to trust herself, and to test every limit she could. She also loved to put 50 pounds of weight on her back and run for _____, and she loved to be a soldier. She was somebody who had a bread maker in her office in Kandahar, and would bake a batch of raisin _____, and then go to the gym and bust out 25 or 30 pull-ups from a dead hang. She was the ______ who, if you needed an _____ pair of boots or a home-cooked dinner, would be on your _____ dial. Because she never, ever would talk to you about how good she was, but let her character speak through ______. She was famous for taking the hard right over the easy _____. And she was also famous for walking up to a 15-foot rope, climbing it using only her arms, and then shuffling away and apologizing, because she knew she was supposed to use both her arms and her legs, as the Rangers had _______ them. (Laughter)

Solution

  1. extra
  2. miles
  3. speed
  4. person
  5. state
  6. dynamo
  7. wrong
  8. pushed
  9. trained
  10. bread
  11. action

Original Text

At the heart of this team was the one person who everyone called "the best of us." She was a petite blonde dynamo, who barely reached five-foot-three. And she was this wild mix of Martha Stewart, and what we know as G.I. Jane. She was someone who loved to make dinner for her husband, her Kent State ROTC sweetheart who pushed her to be her best, and to trust herself, and to test every limit she could. She also loved to put 50 pounds of weight on her back and run for miles, and she loved to be a soldier. She was somebody who had a bread maker in her office in Kandahar, and would bake a batch of raisin bread, and then go to the gym and bust out 25 or 30 pull-ups from a dead hang. She was the person who, if you needed an extra pair of boots or a home-cooked dinner, would be on your speed dial. Because she never, ever would talk to you about how good she was, but let her character speak through action. She was famous for taking the hard right over the easy wrong. And she was also famous for walking up to a 15-foot rope, climbing it using only her arms, and then shuffling away and apologizing, because she knew she was supposed to use both her arms and her legs, as the Rangers had trained them. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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united states 3
operations front 2
body armor 2

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Important Words

  1. action
  2. apologizing
  3. arms
  4. bake
  5. barely
  6. batch
  7. blonde
  8. boots
  9. bread
  10. bust
  11. called
  12. character
  13. climbing
  14. dead
  15. dial
  16. dinner
  17. dynamo
  18. easy
  19. extra
  20. famous
  21. good
  22. gym
  23. hang
  24. hard
  25. heart
  26. husband
  27. jane
  28. kandahar
  29. kent
  30. knew
  31. laughter
  32. legs
  33. limit
  34. loved
  35. maker
  36. martha
  37. miles
  38. mix
  39. needed
  40. office
  41. pair
  42. person
  43. petite
  44. pounds
  45. pushed
  46. put
  47. raisin
  48. rangers
  49. reached
  50. rope
  51. rotc
  52. run
  53. shuffling
  54. soldier
  55. speak
  56. speed
  57. state
  58. stewart
  59. supposed
  60. sweetheart
  61. talk
  62. team
  63. test
  64. trained
  65. trust
  66. walking
  67. weight
  68. wild
  69. wrong