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Sherlock Holmes, beagle, bobby, bull, cop, copper, couch, crawl, creep, dick, eye, flatfoot, fuzz, gendarme, go on tiptoe,

   underdeveloped nation - disadvantaged, needy, poor, underprivileged ,

   sidewards - aside, askance, broadside, edgewise, glancing, lateral, lee, leeward, on the beam, right and left, side, sidelong, sideways, weather, windward ,

   voting machine - colonization, floating, instrument, poll, proportional representation, vote, voting ,

   singing club - choir, chorale, chorus, ensemble ,

   thresh out - air, analyse, canvass, comment upon, consider, controvert, deal with, debate, deliberate, discourse, discuss, examine, go into, handle, investigate,

   offal - bilge, bones, carrion, chaff, deadwood, debris, dishwater, dregs, dust, filings, garbage, gash, hogwash, husks, junk,

   tightness - Jim Crow, adhesiveness, alien, apartheid, avarice, bullheadedness, cheapness, closeness, cohesiveness, colour bar, confinement, consistency, crowdedness, division, ethnocentrism,

   typographic - lower case, upper case ,

   unbar - aid, cast off, clear the way, detach, disengage, doff, ease, expedite, explain, facilitate, free, grease, grease the wheels, hasten, help,

   malefic - baleful, baneful, bitchy, corrosive, corrupting, counter-productive, cussed, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, distressing, dreadful, evil,