Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irked by the advance alibi making of some of the critics who fear that Russia's state-subsidized athletes may whip the U.S.'s expense account amateurs at the Olympics in Australia next November, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage, world's No. 1 defender of pure amateurism, sounded off. "Champions are not made by subsidies or training camps but by diligence and intelligence ... It is not the strength of other people that we in the U.S. need fear. It is our national complacency ... If Russian success in the Olympic games arouses us ... it will serve...
...invite whites to join them, 3) Whites should treat Negroes as Christian-in their own churches, 4) Negroes best serve God in their own churches, 5) Negroes who understand God's teachings don't want to mix with whites, 6) Negroes have as much right to a pure race, 7) Negroes believe mixing races is disobedient to the word of God, 8) an aim of Communism is to 'mongrelize the human race...
...addition to marking up books, Haynes said that the most vicious practice was the actual cutting out of photographs and pages from a book, declaring that it was pure vandalism and should not occur at a place such as Harvard...
...national high school enrollment. "It's the rare Caltech student whose IQ falls below 130," explained Psychologist Weir. "The average is somewhere around 140." (A classification amounting to "very superior.") To single out the elite of this exceptional group, M.I.T. and Caltech are looking for something beyond pure IQ. They want, said M.I.T. Vice President Jtflius Stratton, "boys with the passionate interest in developing themselves...
...rather live on bread alone, there are other ways to get your vitamins. For pure satisfaction, nothing beats sitting in the house library until the evening visit of the milk-and-doughnuts man. Lurch nosily to your feet at his whistle, and lope the length of the library with hunger in every movement. It drives the poor grinds nuts...