Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EDUCATION. To stimulate scientific education, the Department of Health, Education & Welfare will seek an initial $224 million for a federal scholarship program (see EDUCATION). In addition, the National Science Foundation's fund for non-defense pure research grants ($17 million this year) will be raised to about $50 million...
...reputed to be a man with a past full of most imaginative sexual contacts, and less imaginative jail sentences. As a playwright he draws on his acquaintance with the part of mankind most easily mistakable for rats, and adds a grotesque imagination to depressing subject matter. Occasionally, pure ugliness achieves dramatic effect via shock. Often it is simply ugly...
Looking to the future, Dreyfus has doubled Renault's research budget and staff. Of his 60,580 workers, 802 are research engineers, half of them busy with pure research. Renault is experimenting with a turbodiesel locomotive, and has already sold rattle-free, rubber-tired subway cars to the Paris Metro. Says President Dreyfus: "We must be regarded as something of a pilot plant that sets the pace for the rest of the nation's economy. For the past three years we have been able to raise wages by more than 12%, while holding the price of our finished...
...also sells Tommy Steele belts, blouses and underwear by the hundreds of thousands, and moves Bloomsbury parlor psychologists to long, long thoughts. Wrote Novelist Colin Maclnnes in the highbrow monthly Encounter: "The most striking feature of Tommy's performance is that it is both animally sensual and innocent, pure. He is Pan, he is Puck ... he is every mother's cherished adolescent...
...talk incantation and engaging panhandle stride. And something of this solo zip is mass-produced in the festive small-town spin of Onna White's dances. Prettily singing the show's over-pretty romantic tunes, Barbara Cook provides a contrastingly quiet charm. The Music Man is not pure cream, only nice, fresh half-and-half. But it particularly catches the jubilant oldtime energy of a small-town jamboree-an energy whose modern habitat may well be the musi-comedy stage...