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Twelve old sentences. Today is not here. For each: five words, one sentence, a headline.
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Two weeping nurses somehow saved the tiny premature twin babies before dawn.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
Brown flood water, rising within ten minutes, ruined the entire ground floor.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
Furious unions, calling the terms an insult, rejected all final contract offers.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
Overnight parking was allowed on every street until the mayor banned it.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
Volunteers, not the council, reopened the railway line that collapsed in March.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
The last giant sundaes were licked by thirty cheering children after the van broke down.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
From Wellfleet in November to a Coney Island afternoon eight months later, turtle Pancake rejoins the Atlantic.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
In thirty years at an Ohio children's hospital, one surgeon draws ten thousand cartoons on little bandages.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
Rex, a wobbly four-month-old kitten who never could walk, gets in the wheelchair Michael Hawley built him from Lego.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
After a prank order of pizzas in Wyoming, one pizzeria owner gives the whole lot to the ER.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
After a call from an Ohio church, a friendly pygmy goat rode to the county fair in the back seat of a police cruiser.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
A Seattle dog called Eclipse rode the bus alone to the park, a few stops off, in a red harness, with her own pass on her collar.
Keep five of its own words. No new words.
One-sentence summary. Glue words are fine. New facts are not.
Headline. One line.
Other cuts are fine if every word in the five is in the sentence, and every fact in the one-sentence is in the original. The models are one cut each, not the only cut.
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