The Socs jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper fro being a public ______ one day and an asset to society the next.

He liked fights, blondes, and for some ______ reason, school.

He has a finely drawn, sensitive face that somehow manages to be ___________ and thoughtful at the same time

I was smarting and aching and my chest was sore and I was so nervous my hands were shaking and I wanted to start _______, but you just don't say that to Darry.

She gave him an _________ look, and then she threw her Coke in his face.

Two-Bit knew better than to scare Johnny like that. I guess he'd forgotten. He's kind of ____________

Dallas __________ for a second. If it had been me, or Two-Bit, or Soda or Steve, or anyone but Johnny, Dally would have flattened him without a moment's hesitation

Dally grinned ____________. "I'm not nice. Want a Coke?"

Johnny's eyes went round and he ____________ as though I'd belted him. Two-Bit slapped me a good one across the side of the head, and hard.

Mickey Mouse was a dark-gold buckskin, sassy and _________, not much more than a colt. He'd come when Soda called him.

Dally- wild, __________ Dally- turning in a hoodlum because he'd die if he didn't and Steve--his hatred for his father coming out in his soft, bitter voice and the violence of his temper.

Two-Bit _________ offered to walk them home - the west side of town was only about twenty miles away- but they wanted to call their parents and have them come and get them.

I finally calmed down and wiped my eyes on my bare arm. MY breath was coming in _________ sobs.

That was the truth. Socs were always behind a wall of ______, careful not to let their real selves show through.

The wind blasted through my soaked sweatshirt and dripping hair. My teeth chattered ______________, and I couldn't stop them.

Buck glared at me for a second, then stumbled off. He was pretty well crocked, which made me ____________.

"Oh, shoot, kid" --Dally glanced ____________ over his shoulder--"I was in the bedroom."

Towheded and shifty-eyed, Dally was anything but handsome. Yet, in his hard face, there was character, pride, and a savage ____________ of the world.

If he got caught, they'd give him the electric chair, and if they caught me, I'd be sent to a __________.