Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three, but Impresario Kelly held firm, and eight it was. She opened with a Mozart aria from The Abduction from the Seraglio, which she did in harsh, mediocre style. With two arias from Bellini's I Puritani, Callas hit her stride, rippling down her famed arpeggios, her tone pure and vibrant...
Deprived of absolution-there was a queue at the box, and Verlaine had never had to wait for anything before-he decided to be redeemed by the love of a pure angel. For this he selected 16-year-old Mathilde Maute, prim and pretty authoress of a poem beginning, "How powerful is a woman's tear!" Verlaine so worshiped her that he stopped going to brothels, and when their marriage had to be postponed, suffered what he perplexedly called "a disappointment that one might almost describe as carnal...
Since each megacurie is roughly as potent as 2,200 Ibs. of pure radium, this is a large amount of radioactivity. Mn-54 has a rather long half life, 291 days, and since it is absorbed by living organisms, the Navy's safety men have added it to their list of dangerous fallout isotopes. They are now looking for plants and animals that may pick it up as it floats around the earth, and concentrate it in their tissues. They already know one plant, tea. that is avid for manganese and may concentrate the radioactive kind...
FIRST U.S. TURBOPROP, the 410-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra, rolled off production lines a month ahead of schedule in race to beat Boeing's 600-m.p.h. pure jet 707 (TIME, Nov. 11) onto commercial air lanes. Lockheed has 141 firm orders for the $2,000,000 plane, is scheduled to make first delivery to Eastern Air Lines in August...
...Pure Bunk." The most serious worry for 1958 is the Government's continuing tight-money campaign in the face of an economic slide, however slight. Speaking before the American Finance Conference in Washington last week, White House Economic Advisor Gabriel Hauge assured businessmen that the Administration is ready to cushion any downturn with "flexible policies, adapted to changing conditions." It was flatly untrue, said Hauge, that the Government was out to cause a "little recession," to keep the economy healthy. "I want to label that for what it is-pure bunk. Nor does this Administration believe that a little...