Word: puree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story of this game is we bust our butts on defense for the first 20 minutes, and they shoot 70 percent," Harvard Coach Pete Roby said after the blowout. "Our problem is we can't shoot the basketball, pure and simple...
Last week's declines stunned everyone, from commodities brokers to Texas oil barons. Panic swept the New York Mercantile Exchange, the nerve center of U.S. oil trading. "There was pure chaos on the floor," said Joel Faber, president of Faber's Futures and a governor of the exchange. As the price of crude fell, shipments of heating oil for February delivery plunged to 55.75 cents per gal., the lowest level since the late 1970s. Six blocks away, on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped a total of 26 points on Tuesday and Wednesday before pulling...
...Hayes knows when she should shoot and when she shouldn't--she knows the game well," Smith said. "Hayes is a pure shooter; she's most effective from the perimeter. She has room for improvement on defense, but by the end of last year we were using her against some of the top offensives...
...London's Royal Opera House, have been willful. But in The Juniper Tree he has had the good sense to emulate the haunting imagery and striking tableaux that are Wilson's hallmarks. The tree, whose branches agonizingly split apart as the father dines lustily on his unholy supper, is pure Wilson; so is the unexpected apparition of the first wife, aboard what appears to be a rhinoceros, as the guilty stepmother's conscience afflicts...
Austerity has tended to lose the fight to pizzazz. Shaker furniture makers eventually abandoned pure folk simplicity; Arts and Crafts yeomanry gave way to florid reproductions. Yet by the 1920s, both modes had been supplanted by a new phenomenon: the cult of the machine. Technology cast its spell over the national imagination, and the idea of the future became palpable...