Word: puree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discovered skulking into the kind of 24-hour diner that, in movies, betokens a Mafia presence. And sure enough, a disreputable little man is soon slipping her a mysterious packet. Dope? Money for laundering? No, jokes. As it turns out, terrible jokes. Jokes that produce a distillation of pure flop sweat when she tries them out at a comedy club called the Gas Station, where beginning comics mostly improvise their own humiliations. For Lilah is a bored New Jersey housewife who has been told all her life that she is a funny lady and dreams of public confirmation of that...
...some missionaries, the experience gave them new insight into what they wanted to do with their lives. Griffin, a biochemistry major before his mission, is now majoring in history and science, focusing on modern German history. "My desire to do pure science definitely changed, and I also wanted to interact with people," he says...
...atmosphere is pure Boston. No McDonalds, no Bloomies here. Just brick apartment buildings, a few ethnic eateries and vendors scattered along the sidewalks...
...sensible readers will dismiss the ranking as pure hogwash. There are too many examples of such surveys not taking reality into account...
...math that is being taught, and thus their futures in their respective fields will be harmed. Further-more, if one section leader is better than another, the nature of the course is such that this difference in teaching ability will reflect unfairly upon those students who had the pure chance of being in a better section, while the other students will suffer the adverse effects...