Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-range, pure-jet market, Britain washed out. De Havilland, still suffering from its fatal Comet crashes, has sold only 36 commercial Comets, all but ten to British lines. Foreign lines have shown a marked preference for the bigger, faster U.S. jets. As for military sales, Britain has practically abandoned planes, and missile orders are comparatively small, since the U.S. has supplied Britain with many such weapons. English Electric's hot (Mach 2) P.1 Lightning all-weather night fighter, now abuilding, will not only be the Royal Air Force's first truly supersonic fighter, but very likely...
...town of Boston had reached 40,000 in population, and the town fathers felt the need to establish a city form of government. Again Quincy's personal tenets conflicted with those of the majority; he felt the "pure democracy of the town meeting more suited to the character of the people of New England." However, he presided at the final Boston town meeting and would have been elected first mayor save for factional politics. Mayor Phillips retired at the end of a single year, and Quincy assumed the position...
...just one of his dozens of leaflets, Maryland's polemical Pamphleteer Francis B. Livesey blamed public schools for "the Negro problem, the servant problem, the labor problem, the tramp problem, the unemployment problem, the divorce problem, the eyesight problem, the juvenile problem, the bribery problem and the pure-food problem...
...music (Sonatas K. 282, 283, 311, 333, Rondo in A Minor, K. 511, Country Dances, K. 606) as RCA Victor engineers recorded her art, sometimes for five hours at a stretch. By now, her fingers were gnarled and clawlike; yet her articulation was so sure, her tone never more pure. After a year of daily sessions, her recordings won cheers as one of the most important contributions to the interpretation of Mozart (TIME...
From the cockney and king's English of My Fair Lady, past the pure Iowa corn of The Music Man to the pidgin of Flower Drum Song, the best of the musicals make a cosmopolitan chorus. Redhead sings along only because Gwen Verdon calls the tune...