Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glass and the stars shone double in the sky and on the water. The silence was only broken by the whistle of the lizards or the cry of some far-off marsh frog. The air was warmer than we ever feel in the depth of an English summer, yet pure and delicious and charged with the perfume of a thousand flowers...
...pure and pristine is the cold air of Antarctica it has been said that no wood rots, no metal rusts, no food decays, few bugs survive. But U.S. interservice rivalry flourishes there. Most recent example: the argument over the marking of the 6,000-ft. ice landing-strip runway at McMurdo Sound. Navy ground crews insisted upon marking ends of the runway Navy-style, with oil barrels painted black, or even-as a concession to Air Force protests-by painting some of the barrels orange. The Air Force cargo pilots, who fly in from New Zealand, held...
...ability to undercut his competitors, make records in construction time. His stadium in Florence, seating 35,000, cost only $2.90 per seat to build; recently he put up a three-story factory in 100 days. Faced with commodity scarcities and cutthroat competition, he has still managed to raise pure structure to the level...
...audiences have agreed with this point of view, complains Author West. Hamlet, they say, is the most fascinating of plays-and Hamlet the most irresolute of princes. But, Author West suggests, how about taking another look at Shakespeare's text? Instead of seeming an ambivalent neurotic with a pure heart, does the sweet prince not really emerge as a tough, virile "Renaissance man" who stops at nothing...
...said: "There is not one of us but recognizes in the prince . . . our own characteristics." But the characteristics that men really recognize are neither noble aspirations nor irresoluteness: men see, in fact, their own traits of taint and corruption. Hamlet is stamped with Original Sin. Hamlet cannot be "pure"-nor can mankind. This is the message that people have managed to ignore for three centuries, because they have found it too unpleasant...