Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BOAC's losses stem largely from its decision to buy British aircraft. In 1955, it ordered a fleet of sleek, new Comet4 long-range pure jets and, after delivery in 1958, saw them made obsolete within a year by more economical, longer-range U.S. Boeing 707s. Now BOAC has 16 Boeing 707s; but it is stuck with 60 prop planes, propjets and Comets, whose value, according to the last BOAC annual report, is "?30 million less than book value...
...Part II Michele Morgan is valiant and pure as a woman who has been falsely accused of adultery by her husband's political enemies. Told partly through Daumier-like drawings, partly through live action (mostly the narrowing of Mlle. Morgan's elegant nostrils), it takes place in France of 1885 and culminates in a noisy courtroom acquittal. Moral: it doesn't pay to underestimate the power of a nostril...
...full of hate and fear for the sadistic master-at-arms, Mister Claggart. They find in Billy Budd's artless warmth a hope that somehow he can save them from Claggart's bullying; even the Avenger's aloof Captain Vere takes a liking to the pure-minded...
...turned the island into a bordello, a dump and a gambling casino for over half a century; but it was Dr. bearded maniac who imposed an anti-American character on that pure little revolution...
...friend says that George sailed because he loved the danger, the challenge of pitting himself against nature. Another says it was pure recreation. Neither is probably entirely correct, but it is hard to imagine Lodge devoting such a large chunk of his time as he did to sailing without some philosophical justification...