Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burning Diem's collection of 10,000 books. The Communists arrested Diem; they took hold of Diem's respected elder brother, Ngo Dinh Khoi and buried him alive. But only four months later Ho Chi Minh, concluding that he needed the backing of some pure nationalists, summoned Ngo Dinh Diem from prison. "Come and live with me at the palace...
...many greying swing cats who could dream with him. But his playing revealed none of the tenseness that took him out of his ill-fated tour with Louis Armstrong (TIME, April 27, 1953), and little of the formality of his concert appearances with symphony orchestras. Instead, his tones soared pure and liquid above the fanciful riffs of his sidemen, and he seemed to have settled comfortably into a style that had its roots in his own past, with a few overtones of more "progressive" jazz. At the piano was Teddy Wilson, who starred in Goodman's first, well-remembered...
Kraft TV Theater looked into the case of Mary Surratt, hanged in 1865 for complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and, like most historians, found her innocent. Doreen Lang captured believably the quality of a woman too pure-minded to know or guess at the plot that was hatched in her own house; the military court that condemned her to death had that toplofty disregard for the evidence that seems to identify all judges who hear cases with their minds already made...
...itself when other nations practice it. Furthermore, the U.S. angers its friends almost every time it tries to get rid of its surpluses abroad at competitive prices. Example: U.S. attempts to sell butter abroad, said Chairman William Marshall of New Zealand's Dairy Products Marketing Commission, constitute "pure and unadulterated dumping of surpluses" in violation of international trade agreements...
Probably because they were not called upon to represent pure virtue or pure evil, the rest of the dancers were good. Karen Wilk wore the mask of hark and skulked about with the mystery necessary for her ultimate metamorphosis. Also part of the palace menage, the guards did what was required, particularly Eleanor Sutherland, who did more. As good were the tavern people...