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puzzled and inquired
The Rajk trials led Moscow to warn Czechoslovakia's parties that enemy agents had penetrated high into party ranks, and when a puzzled Rudolf Slánský and Klement Gottwald inquired what they could do, Stalin's NKVD agents arrived to help prepare subsequent trials.

puzzled and How
The puzzled guest would reply, " No ", and then Amanda asks, " How about a plate of spaghetti?

puzzled and large
In March the same year, Jenny Nicholson, a frequent contributor, wrote a piece on the Italian Socialist Party congress in Venice, which mentioned three Labour MPs " who puzzled the Italians by filling themselves like tanks with whisky and coffee …" All three sued for libel, the case went to trial and The Spectator was forced to make a large payment in damages and costs, a sum well over the equivalent of £ 150, 000 today.
The horror content that was permitted to remain in the game — notably large amounts of blood and the use of the word " hell "-- have puzzled gamers, as Nintendo was notorious for enforcing censorship policies in the late 1980s and early 90s, when the game was released.

puzzled and is
Rather than being deceived, the eye is puzzled ; ;
Li ' l Abner has one odd design quirk that has puzzled readers for decades: the part in his hair always faces the viewer, no matter which direction Abner is facing.
In the chapter, Nicodemus is puzzled and asks Jesus what he means by saying that " Ye must be born again ".
The issue of whether Katharine and Arthur's marriage had been consummated is a question still puzzled over by historians to this day.
Louise is slightly alarmed when she comes above deck, and the two are puzzled by the phenomena that disappears as quickly as it had it shown up.
I must have shown that I was not only puzzled but crestfallen, at this exception to what looked like a very pretty rule of stellar characteristics ; but Pickering smiled upon me, and said: " It is just these exceptions that lead to an advance in our knowledge ", and so the white dwarfs entered the realm of study!
Continental writers of Arthurian romances were often puzzled by the internal geography of Great Britain ; thus it is that the author French Prose Tristan appears to place Léonois contiguous, by land, to Cornwall.
Scholars are puzzled by Ve ( d ) iove ( or Veiovis, or Vedius ) and unwilling to discuss his identity, claiming our knowledge of this god is insufficient.
Neville is puzzled by the fact that she is upset when he speaks of killing vampires, on grounds that if her story of survival was true, she would have become hardened to the act.
Tintin finds a slip of paper in the radio room with an order to deliver " coke ", and is puzzled.
Peyna is puzzled by the requests, but, seeing no harm in them, grants them.
She is puzzled, but finally relents and returns home.
Working as a domestic, she is puzzled when her Anglo employer shows her a washing machine.
Though the body has two gunshot wounds, Archer is puzzled by the condition of the body, in particular what appears to be a sunburn on the body's arm.
His down-to-earth father, Ray ( Paul Dooley ), a former stonecutter who now operates ( sometimes unethically ) his own used car business, is puzzled and exasperated by his son's love of Italian music and culture, which Dave associates with cycling.
He is puzzled when the Evil One doesn't put up much of a fight, only stipulating an escape clause which allows the man to die if he so wishes, but doesn't worry too much about it.
Boddole Zer, Supreme Commander of the Zentradi, is puzzled over things such as relationships amongst males and females.
Rocky is puzzled but he decides that if God is okay with him being there, he won't bother worrying.
Francis Barraud said: “ It is difficult to say how the idea came to me beyond that fact that it suddenly occurred to me that to have my dog listening to the phonograph, with an intelligent and rather puzzled expression, and call it “ His Master ’ s Voice ” would make an excellent subject.
Drusilla, who loves Darla like a parent, genuinely believes she is doing Darla a favor by siring her and is puzzled by Darla's brief rage before her renewed vampire nature kicks in.
Upon this second meeting with Ifurita, Makoto is puzzled by the fact that she does not recognize him, nor does she treat him with the same demeanor she evoked in their first encounter.

puzzled and your
Many customers must have been puzzled at the ball park hawker's refrain of, " Get your hot dogs, get your hot dogies here " coming from the back store room.

puzzled and house
The house orchestra, puzzled by Foxx's leave simply played him off with the Sanford and Son theme song again.
The house orchestra, puzzled by Foxx's leaving, simply played him off with the Sanford and Son theme song again.

puzzled and ?
When it could be turned over an inscription of Merenptah recording his triumphs over the Libyans and the Peoples of the Sea was revealed ; Spiegelberg noted German philologist came over to read it, and near the end of the text he was puzzled by one, that of a people or tribe whom Merenptah had victoriously smitten --" I. si. ri. ar?
However, Farhad Manjoo wrote in a Wired magazine article that others were puzzled why the group was targeted ; Manjoo characterized them as " small potatoes in the world of software theft ", while an anonymous Australian pirate was quoted as saying, " they aren't the first to come to mind when you think to yourself ' whose ( sic ) the big deal in the scene?
To which Andreotti answered puzzled, " Which one do you mean?
" Why ," asked her puzzled owner of the thief, " steal this horse when there were so many better to chose from?
When Bob ( Bob Newhart ) looks at Michael's " masterpiece " his puzzled observation is " Children with big ears?
Perowne expresses a distaste for some modern literature, puzzled by, even disdaining magical realism: " What were these authors of reputation doing — grown men and women of the twentieth century — granting supernatural powers to their characters?
According to the conductor Georg Tintner, this lack of confidence in the work arose from a question by the puzzled conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Felix Otto Dessoff, who asked Bruckner, " Where is the main theme?
Another interesting question that has puzzled many scholars is — why did Yamato go through so much effort to protect Baekje?

saleslady and is
She is approached by a saleslady who guides her to the only item on the floor: the exact gold thimble that Marsha wants.
Allen is perhaps best known on TV for her role as the creepy saleslady in the first-season episode of Rod Serling's original version of The Twilight Zone, entitled " The After Hours ", where actress Anne Francis ( playing ' Miss Marsha White ') finally realizes that she is a mannequin and that her month of freedom and living among the humans is over.
Allen's saleslady character ( seen by no one but Marsha ) is the mannequin whose turn in the outside world is up next and has already been delayed by one full day, thus explaining her slightly peeved attitude.

saleslady and house
She said to the saleslady, `` I want a dress to put on around the house ''.

inquired and How
" How come he doesn't know it ?’ inquired Yossarian.

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