Word: puree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pure. Most of Jerusalem's 60,000 Arabs shut down their shops and went home in protest against the parade. Some watched the parade on TV behind shuttered windows; others, excited by the blare of loudspeakers and the roar of jets, came out on their balconies to watch. Radio Amman charged Israel with buying 20,000 Arab kaffiyehs (headdresses) beforehand with the aim of having dark-complexioned Israelis wear them in the streets and thus making it look as if Jerusalem's Arabs were joining the celebration. The few Arabs who did mingle in the crowds, however, seemed...
...polluting sense, man is the dirtiest animal, and he must learn that he can no longer afford to vent smoke casually into the sky and sewage into rivers as he did in an earlier day, when vast reserves of pure air and water easily diluted the pollutants. The earth is basically a closed system with a waste-disposal process that clearly has limits. The winds that ventilate earth are only six miles high; toxic garbage can kill the tiny organisms that normally clean rivers. Today, industrial America is straining the limits...
Later that day Mrs. Collins took me around to talk to another neighbor, Mrs. Lillie Mae Common. She had recently quit a cooking job at one of the local eateries, a small room attached to the Pure Oil gas station just this side of the railway tracks that divides the town. The eatery is run by a tall woman, hair dyed an unnatural deep black, whose hips liked to brush against the hairy fingers of a customer. Sister of the gas-station's owner-manager, she was married and yet not married; some mystery surrounded her status...
...Callahan could profit from reading Of Human Love by Henry Daniel-Rops. As he states, "by nature, from her creation woman is dependent in much the same way as, grammatically, the feminine has affinity for the masculine." As for God being sexless: that is usually the case with pure spirits, I would assume. However, it was our Lord who directed that we address God as Father, and fathers have always been masculine in my experience. As for Christ's mother being glorified only because she so willingly accepted a subordinate role, what other role could a creature have...
...five--Marland P. Billings '23, professor of Geology, Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, David Turnbull, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, and Kenneth J. Arrow, who will join the Faculty as professor of Economics next fall--were among 50 new members elected to the Academy on Saturday. They will be members for life...