Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists make in private that he has lost all sense of proportion. The crowded committee room was silent. Teller began to reply: "I chose the profession of a scientist," he said, "and I am in love with science; and I would not do willingly or eagerly anything else but pure science because it is beautiful and my interest is there. I don't like weapons. I would like to have peace. But for peace we need weapons, and I do not think my views are distorted. I believe I am contributing to a peaceful world...
...Pure fairy tale," snapped Gaillard...
...bite of their salaries and bonuses to support the rebellion. But no one had imagined that the F.L.N. was powerful enough to make the players throw up good jobs, abandon their homes, and give up such sideline business as bars and bistros. The flight may not have been pure patriotism, but it was far from kidnaping. The exodus, with its complicated movement of wives and children, luggage and refrigerators and washing machines, was elaborately planned over a long period of time to avert suspicion, and not a single player appealed to the police for protection...
...choristers at the Albert Hall, assorted cockneys and Yankees, a harebrained cultist and a cheery nursery-school teacher. Mimic Grenfell's satiric range is narrow, her lunges make mere surface wounds, and half a Grenfell loaf is better than all of one. But her art, if thin, is pure, and it is an art-one that flowered most richly with the late Ruth Draper. To call Joyce Grenfell a superior Draper's assistant is not faint praise...
...purest of the pure scientists, the theoretical physicists, who, in their possession of the truth of science, are also the administrators of the most terrible power of science in nuclear energy. Both the truth and the power lie in the hands of an elite within the order...