_________ time and labor, cartoonists generally draw the hands of their characters with only 3 fingers and a thumb.
The meeting was _____ when the chairman fell ill.
The members of the club wouldn't run a _____ in entrusting(委托) the organization to an unreliable person.
John was very upset because he was _____ by the police with breaking the law.
The child enjoyed _____ up the wooden bricks then knocking them down.
Although John was the eldest in the family, he always let his sister _____ charge of the house.