Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene on the sidewalk was a pure Billy Rose spectacle. While cops hovered before the curved Georgian facade of his Manhattan town house, showmanship's shortest (5 ft. 3 in.) giant lounged in the cavity of Henry Moore's Reclining Figure, surrounded by Reg Butler's Woman Stretching, Maillol's Chained Liberty, Rodin's nude Adam and Archipenko's cubistic Woman Combing Hair. While Billy watched, twelve white-coated movers lifted the sculpture into vans. In all, there were 105 pieces conservatively worth $1,000,000, and they were off on their final journey...
Leonov's short "stroll" into personal orbit was one of the most remarkable achievements of the remarkable age of space. The Soviet success, said Kurt Debus, German-born director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, "points to sophistication in manufacturing, computers, metallurgy, ballistics, space medicine and the pure sciences. This effort proved in one stroke their standing in all these fields...
...visiting Harvard as professor of Government, Jaguaribe is convinced that Army dictatorships must yield to popular democracy; he advocates state control instead of U.S. ownership in Latin American industry. But he does not believe that Communism, pure and simple, is the only alternative to military domination and foreign exploitation. "I am really very undogmatic," he says smiling. "I believe in choosing what is best for Latin America from Marxism and capitalism--and of course that will mean a great many changes...
TINY ALICE. Edward Albee's opaque allegory peddles the fallacy that the pure-in-heart are mortally vulnerable before institutionalized worldliness. The symbols tinkle hollowly, but the theatrical electricity of the play is turned on fully by John Gielgud and Irene Worth...
Other fuel cells already in operation combine pure hydrogen and oxygen to form water. In the process the hydrogen gives up electrons that flow out of the cell as electric current. But hydrogen is a touchy, expensive fuel, and since it is a very light gas, only small amounts can be stored in large, un wieldy pressure tanks. The Esso cell burns familiar methanol (wood alcohol) and gets its oxygen free, out of ordinary...