Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jackson has always been a very deceptive runner, but Saturday his ability to change direction, and pure speed made Harvard tacklers look surprisingly inadequate at the times when a sure tackle was needed...
...songs. They performed both with easy professionalism. Led by greying, bearlike Monsignor Fernand Maillet, 59, they bubbled with lighthearted precision in such frolics as Frère Jacques and Alouette, brilliantly worked their way through a difficult cantata written for them by Darius Milhaud, and spun out an incredibly pure, otherworldly tone in the age-old Gregorian chant, Tenebrae Factae Sunt...
...year-old Soprano Schwarzkopf, handsomely filling her boudoir gown, looked blonde and beautiful. In fact, when she broke down and sobbed over her waning youth at the end of Act I, she needed all her acting skill to make the moment convincing. Best of all, her water-pure soprano floated out and illuminated her big scenes...
...they reached the trappers' legendary Roche Jaune River (Yellowstone). Then came the Milk, the Judith, which Clark named for his future wife, and the Marias, which Lewis named "in honour of Miss Maria W-d." though "the hue of the waters ... but illy comport with the pure celestial virtues and amiable qualifications of that lovely fair one." At night on the plains, the ground around them shook from the stomping herds of buffalo, and once a buffalo bull bellowed into their camp and trampled two guns. The party was almost sunk by rapids and tormented by mosquitoes, cloudbursts...
...without whose sporadic help the ways of women would probably have remained a mystery anyway. Investigating sex at Radcliffe is like making Tom Collinses out of warm water and lemon peels, but they're girls--you can't take that away from them.) little murmurs which could be either pure despair, pure pleasure, or any mixture thereof...