Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next month is a leader from the more populous but less advanced Northern Region, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, currently federal Minister of Transport. Nigeria's north is Moslem, and so conservatively Moslem that its devout regard Egyptians, Turks and Pakistanis as irreverent backsliders and only Saudi Arabians as sufficiently pure in faith...
...Simon-pure sportsmen objected that it was hardly cricket-something like funneling a golf green to insure accurate putting. The Rhode Island League of Salt Water Anglers protested to President Eisenhower. Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger protested to the Senate. But the vice chairman of the city council at Newport, R.I., where Ike will go for a vacation as soon as a laggard Congress lets him, snorted "perfectly ridiculous" and went right on throwing tasty bits of chopped fish into the ocean every day, so that when the President drops a line at the chummed spots, striped bass will...
...year, and Jiménez is at his best when he evokes the look, the sound, the colors of each passing season. Before he finishes, he has sketched for Platero and the reader a charming and shrewd picture of Spanish life that has the delicacy of a pure lyric, the relentless candor of a reel of film. At the end, Platero is dead, victim of some poisonous root, and it is plain that Jiménez has lost a friend no human can replace...
...been done before is likely to be branded as impertinent, especially by the elderly and the scholarly. But you can't have a production that is not a comment; and to think that you can is the real impertinence. It is an illogical and serious mistake to envision one pure, ideal performance...
Question: "What play of Shakespeare deals with jealousy aroused by a traitor out of pure hatred?" Answer: "Othello, of course." True; but Shakespeare had also treated this subject previously, for it is the main theme of Much Ado About Nothing. And he would return to it again, with self-interest substituted for pure hatred, in Cymbeline. The material for all three variations on the theme came from earlier sources...