Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infamous U-2 incident in the May 30 edition, I became highly incensed at your rather partisan coverage of the political implications. I feel sure that Governor Stevenson and others of his party were'not simply throwing American unity to the wind for the sake of pure political advantage. Has it not always been the duty of the opposition party to criticize and attack policies that it feels are not in the best interests...
...intensify the problem. Dr. Joseph C. Hinsey, a former dean (Cornell) and now director of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, points out that proposals to appropriate billions for research may dry up the supply of physicians to apply the research findings-because the men siphoned off into "pure" laboratory work would otherwise be in medical schools and combining research with the teaching of future doctors...
...beating the queue in front of the ladies' room.'' So great is his prestige that Film Producer Peter Bamberger says: "Obermaier has written himself into such power that he can seemingly make or break anyone in German moviedom. Last year in Venice, on a pure whim, he picked up Barbara Valentin-a blowzy blonde whom he referred to in private as a 'fat louse.' Within one month, with the aid of all the columnists in the illustrateds who copy Hunter in everything he does, he made her into Germany's No. 1 femme fatale...
...seed business is built on planned obsolescence. Burpee, who has developed hundreds of new varieties of flowers, often names outstanding new ones after celebrities. This calls for some careful catalogue descriptions. He likes to tell of the seedsman who named a flower after his mother, described it as "pure white, big and robust, with a wide, expanded form on stout stems...
...looking for other mutations. One student found a whole row of odorless plants. Burpee has continued to develop his favorite flower, which this year passed zinnias as the company's biggest flower seller. He is offering a $10,000 prize for the first gardener who can develop a pure white marigold, hopes to breed purple, red or blue marigolds...