Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonsense. The two things a cowboy loves best are his saddle and his hat. And cowboy speech isn't full of things like 'shucks' and 'side-winding varmint.' What's more, the frontier marshals made mistakes sometimes, and they weren't always pure. The other week's show is a typical example. Matt Dillon [the hero] kills four guys and then is ashamed of himself...
...Pure Heart. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in Yugoslavia, of Albanian parents, 47 years ago. At 18 she went to Ireland to join the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and six weeks after being admitted, set sail for India to teach in the order's schools and convents there. After 20 years of teaching, she asked permission to work among Calcutta's poor...
...outdoor schools and set up a dispensary, petitioned the municipal authorities for a shelter to which the dying destitute could be brought. She was given the pilgrim hostel at the gate of Kali's temple in Kalighat, the most ancient quarter of the city, named it Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) and went to work...
...recent proposal made at the annual Cedar Hill Conference to provide a Student Union for Radcliffe meets with our highest approval. In a world that often appears to us full of self-concern, we are glad to see an act of almost pure altruism...
Such occult phenomena, Wiesinger contends, are caused by a part of the soul behaving with the characteristics of a pure spirit-a mode of action which "is a vestigial remnant of the preternatural powers with which our first parents were endowed before the Fall." One of the characteristics of a pure spirit is that its knowledge does not come through sense perception, but intuitively and at will. Hence the telepathic and clairvoyant abilities of certain individuals in a state, says Wiesinger, of partial liberation from the body. Conversely, the partly liberated soul may be that of a dead person bound...