Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...David Lilienthal, onetime chief of the U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority, visited the subcontinent and concluded that while the two nations quarreled over how much water each got, fully 80% of the Indus flow swept unused to the sea. The question was "pure dynamite," Lilienthal noted, and he urged that an extended canal system be "designed, built and operated as a unit," jointly financed by India, Pakistan and the World Bank...
...rather low melting point (1184° F.), it passes through six different crystalline forms, expanding and contracting as much as 8.9% of its volume. It warps and distorts itself, disrupting anything to which it is attached. Because of this, Argonne Lab has given up trying to use pure plutonium in reactors, is making fuel elements out of plutonium alloyed or combined with other materials...
Greatest casualty of the fire was an estimated $8500 worth of cigar and tobacco products of the famed tobacconists, since the Pure Food and Drug Act forbids sale of any products possibly contaminated by smoke. Bolter & Co., adjoining Leavitt and Peirce reported no damage despite the heavy outpouring of smoke...
...After decades of Salazar, the Portuguese people are suffocating. The progress he proclaims is pure myth. After so many years I find that my home village still has no road and can be reached only by donkey. The young are still growing up untutored and illiterate. The regime has no popular support. It's like Batista's government in Cuba last New Year's Eve. It's perpetuated in power solely by force. Alas, it is difficult to create a guerrilla campaign like the Fidel Castro movement in Cuba because Portugal is too closely policed, populated...
...freshmen were admitted this year to fill the space opened by Quincy, which was supposed to take care of most deconversions. It follows that unless the room rent policy is radically revised, almost all the space opened by the two succeeding houses and by Leverett towers will go into pure expansion...