Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With its classic respect for pure science and its fondness for academic titles, Europe was long the greatest repository of research for the world's industries. But its crown has slipped since World War II. Of 40,000 patents granted in France last year, only 16,000 went to Frenchmen and the rest to foreigners, notably Americans. The West Germans, by latest count, spend $111 million a year more in fees to use foreign licenses than they collect from their own licenses abroad. Italy's University of Pavia found that less than one-third of 965 companies...
...believing any one exclusively. Santayana loved the spiritual discipline of Roman Catholicism, for instance, but he did not accept its doctrines as ultimate truth. "We must see heaven in the midst of earth, just above it, accompanying earth as beauty accompanies it. We must not try to get heaven pure, afterwards, or instead...
...years later, there was no clearly defined line for 600 miles along the north-south border between the two countries. It might not have mattered much, except that beneath the desert sands of the region was discovered one of the world's richest deposits of iron ore (65% pure iron), coal and other minerals. Morocco's King Hassan II claimed the area as part of his ancient kingdom, declared that the Algerian rebels had promised to turn it over in exchange for Morocco's crucial help during the guerrilla war against the French. No such thing, said...
Caged Tiger. Washington had prodded Park hard to set a democratic example. Not everything was simon-pure. After one opposition candidate, retired Lieut. General Song Yo ("Tiger") Chan, attacked Park in a speech, the government suddenly charged Song with having executed two subordinates during the Korean war and put him in Seoul's Sodaemun prison, from where he continued to campaign with tape-recorded speeches...
...solvents. After the solvents have separated, the C.C.D.'s electronic brain tells it to tilt and pour off the liquid from the top of each tube into the next tube. Repeated hundreds or thousands of times over a period of hours or days, the process usually yields pure chemical compounds...