Where'd my day go??

What is it about running around with a realtor that makes hours scream by like minutes?? And then boom - you're discombobulated, confused, and yet curiously optimistic...

I dunno. Might be time for a cocktail - we may have lost our minds.

At any rate, I am late with the Brain Bender (from the handy dandy discount MENSA calendar). Sorry about that. Ready to play?

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What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same seven letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?

Harriet tried to write a history of her father's infantry __________, but it turned out to be so long that she had to __________ the whole middle section.

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Alrighty then, you know what to do. The answers will be found later in the comments. See you then!