Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, staring into a Scotch and soda in a Frankfurt bar, an Army captain brooded: "This isn't Korea or Viet Nam, and it takes more than an effort of will to remain pure here for two years. And I wonder the same about my wife back home. You worry about home, her old boyfriend, the kids." Said an Air Force chaplain in England: "Morale is at rock bottom. We had an incident of a rendezvous in London between an officer and another man's wife. I thought somebody was going to get shot...
...life, the U.S. taxpayer turns over anywhere from 20% to 91% of his income, as requested, with uncommon honesty. Like everyone else, he likes to play the game with the tax collector, but usually for small stakes. IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin estimates that the U.S. taxpayer is 97% pure...
When asked about his country's tendency to employ a double standard in judging the East and West, the ambassador admitted that the West is expected to be wholly "pure...
Trained as a naval engineer, Corelli did not start studying singing until he was 24, learned most of what he knows by listening to recordings of famous singers. His professional career was begun "by pure good luck" when he got the chance to sing opposite Maria Callas in Spontini's La Vestale on a La Scala opening night...
...Piel notes, Americans in the past have been singularly fortunate in that most of their pure science research was done by someone else. During the nineteenth century, all the important innovations upon which we based our technology were made abroad. And even in twentieth century nuclear physics, the United States -- first country to develop the atomic bomb -- exploited the theory of foreigners like Bohr, Fermi, Einstein, and Bethe...