Word: puree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feeble, to unearth evil. And in arguing that we should print evil to expose evil we buy into a false dichotomy about the way we view The Crimson and its goals--either we spew mindless, evil propaganda or we ignore evil altogether and try to play to only the pure, clean interests of our community. One would turn us into a printer for the Moral Majority, the other into a printer for Satan. But we are a newspaper--or at least we try to be--and we try to fully report an issue by revealing all of its sides...
Meanwhile, those who argued to pull the ad, satisfied with their victory, have not bothered to take their case to the rest of the Harvard population. Ironically, now that The Crimson's pages are pure, no one seems terribly worried about convincing women who might want to pose that what they're doing runs counter to everything for which women at Harvard and elsewhere have been fighting for decades...
Still, swearing is nothing to be ashamed of. It is a harmless way for anyone to release feelings of anger and recklessness. But swearing and then lying about it break two, not just one, of society's mores. In his attempt to fabricate an artificially pure image of himself, Reagan reverted to the fantasy world of a Hollywood sound stage instead of facing up to what was hardly a controversial...
...nonprescription pain-relief medicine in the U.S. was stripped from store shelves across the nation as Tylenol's manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, offered a $100,000 reward for help in tracking down what seemed to be a random killer. Said Company Chairman James Burke: "This is an act of terrorism, pure and simple...
Reagan's contentious remark was a flub, pure and simple. It was based on intelligence reports from U.S. operatives in the Philippines, who stressed that fraud by Marcos forces was overwhelmingly more pervasive than any by the Aquino opposition. Reagan first made the accusation during a practice question-andanswer session with his staff before the Tuesday-night news conference. The President was corrected. But, says a Reagan aide, "he had it in his mental computer, and it couldn't be erased...