Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disarmament proposal was "a pure propaganda maneuver," then it is apparently too bad we did not think of it first. It may be worse than just too bad, if we, as you have done, attempt to sneer at it or to laugh it off as impractical...
...study was going on, and finally decided to modify the project considerably from the original arrangement of arbitrarily assigned quarters of work and vacation. Last July, James H. Case, President of Bard, announced that a new schedule had been adopted for the current academic year. Instead of using a pure four quarter program, Bard will maintain its two fifteen-week semesters, and add two half-semesters, one in the summer and one in the winter...
...power shovels and the ponderous cats crunch through their job, or like to hear the big blast in the deep hole. And those who like to follow the impressive accomplishments of men and machines-from tunnels to tough road jobs, to bridge building in Pakistan-may not mind the pure corn of the story line and the predictable antics of those two hefty part ners, Keenan Wynn and Decathlon Star Bob Mathias...
...first-night hoopla at Munich's Gloria Palast was pure Hollywood-grunting cops wrestling with crowds, limousines bulging with black-tied men and mink-draped starlets. As for the movie, it was a blatant rehash of Grand Hotel (1932). It was, sneered the Süddeutsche Zeitung, "pretentious kitsch [trash], a perfection of mediocrity, apotheosis of the single-entendre. Everywhere the box-office sledge hammer. In short, a German film...
Baskin is represented with only one print, a powerful woodcut entitled Death of a Laureate. A hideous, paunchy Caesar seems to gore himself with his own hand. The intricate details that contrast so effectively with the forceful large areas of pure black testify once more to the skill of this master craftsman of American art. More of his work should have been exhibited...