Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Powell was no longer considered a Democrat, what about Mississippi's pure-white Democratic Representative John Bell Williams, who backed States'-Righter T. Coleman Andrews against Adlai Stevenson? Was that a case of another color? Well, said Sheppard, his group had not "as yet gone through the entire employment category and classified Democrats v. Republicans...
...legal expert who prided himself on his skill with wills and his eye for beauty. He left behind, after his death in 1939, a dilly of a will to prove both points of pride. Not counting 235 bottles of scotch, 165 bottles of champagne, 15 gallons of pure alcohol and one bottle "of Howard County applejack (all of which went down the drain to avoid tax complications), he left a round $900,000 to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to build Shriver Hall of materials "the best obtainable in the world." And he tied his bequest down with stipulations...
...last part of his run was accomplished by pure speed. He had utilized all his blockers, and one defender had a crack at him, but Ward was able to outrace him to the goal...
...Blasphemies; a dismal Picture and Emblem of Hell. Satan seems to take a strange possession of it." But Bronson Alcott later observed: "There is a city in our world upon which the light of the sun of righteousness has risen. It is the same city from which every pure stream of thought and purpose and performance emanates. It is the city which is set on high. It cannot be hidden. It is Boston...
...more crimes might be solved if doctors studied how long it takes for different tissues to disintegrate in water and made up a timetable, to show how long a body has been immersed. A major problem is that few of the world's waters are as cold and pure as Lake Orta...