Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nickel, tin, chromium, asbestos, tungsten, uranium, copper, and one small diamond. But the area is separated from the nearest port by 1,400 miles of sand-swept desert trails. Admitted the French government's mining boss in Algeria, Turquet de Beauregard: "Even if we discovered a mountain of pure iron down there, it would not pay to ship it. So we have to look for very precious ores, such as platinum and uranium, which would be worth sending by plane...
...Buried under the desert, in three areas 280 miles to 800 miles south of Algiers, are proved reserves of 3.5 billion bbl. and possible reserves of 7 billion bbl. Eight wells are already operating, and a new one was brought in a fortnight ago. Some of the crude is pure enough to power a diesel engine without being refined. A huge natural gas field also was struck 700 miles due south of Algiers...
RUSSIAN JETLINER, the Tupolev TU-104, is operating more punctually and comfortably than Western airmen expected with world's only commercial pure-jet service. The 70-passenger, twin-jet plane is now fully pressurized, carries three stewardesses who serve meals. Every day it makes 1,039-mile Prague-Moscow flight in 2% hours...
...listened in mild surprise when Nehru labeled the idea "American aid in disguise." In Rangoon Kishi impressed his Burmese hosts with Japan's desire to supply technical know-how to other Asian nations. Somewhere along the way he came down with a case of dysentery. (It may be pure coincidence, but the head of the presidential household in Burma was sacked after Kishi was served a fish course that had been too long out of the water...
Somehow, out of all this vast confusion (amplified by the presence of five pony-sized Irish wolfhounds, cast as hunting dogs) emerged as powerful and moving a performance as British operagoers have seen in many years. Berlioz was anxious in The Trojans to restore pure song to first place in opera, and he succeeded magnificently. The work is studded with lovely arias bathed in richly hued orchestration. The musical theme that runs through the opera is the broad pomp-and-circumstantial Trojan March, first heard with ironic overtones as the Trojans, tired of Cassandra's doom-singing, drag...