Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While there may be some doubts that the travelling circus of Messrs. Kruschev, Bulganin, and Co. will swing into Belgrade next week with "open hearts and pure minds," there can be no question that this latest of Soviet moves poses one of the most serious threats so far to the solidarity of the Western aliance. If only Yugoslavia were at stake, the Russian overtures for expanded trade and treaty ties would not be so significant. Yugoslavia, after all, is not a member of NATO and is bound to the West only through the Turkish-Greek triangle and United States military...
Your correspondent's assertion that unmarried mothers are heroines in Sweden is pure nonsense. What is true, however, is that Swedish society is endeavoring to prevent children from suffering from a misstep or misfortune of their mothers. The responsibilities, financially or otherwise, of fathers of illegitimate children are enforced both by legislation and public opinion. This may, however, not be the case in regard to the quotation extracted from a 19-year-old boy who evidently belongs to the category that breeds juvenile delinquents. Juvenile delinquency is perhaps also one of the elements of the sphere of public morality...
...cover story on Caltech and its president. For several weeks, TIME newsmen on the West Coast, some of whom still have painful memories of long division, knew just how DuBridge felt. With only the hastiest preliminary cramming, they had to EDITOR BARTON ask Caltech's men of pure science the right questions...
Americans take a certain patriotic pride in that record, but they can take little credit themselves for having achieved it. The tradition of "pure" science is a foreign one that had to be transplanted from Europe and virtually forced on American soil. Even today the nation spends, through the Government, $2 billion a year on science, but only about one dollar in 20 goes to pure science; the U.S. has more than 850,000 scientists and engineers, but only about 3% are engaged in fundamental research. The reason for the imbalance is that 1) such research seems dreamy and impractical...
...moods, from the poignant ending of the courtesan's part ("For me, too, prodigious Rome/ Could not protect from prodigious Rome") to the heartbreaking aria of the bereaved fishwife. The fine unison chorus at the end was as rousing as a latter-day Verdi's, and the pure major triad that sang out as the curtain fell was a real shocker...