Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plaster wall inside which the skeletal remains had been found. "As soon as I saw the cloth remnants," says Dr. Guarducci, who is not a professional archaeologist, "I knew that these bones must have been important. The cloth was of rich purple material and was worked with pure gold. I went on studying the inscriptions on the wall and deciphered them. I found the name of Peter, sometimes in the form of the initials P.E. [for Petrus Episcopus, or Bishop Peter] and as a capital P with three horizontal sidestrokes at the base of the vertical stroke-probably the origin...
...eyes and sang: "Precious Lord, take my hand ..." The congregation nodded or swayed gently in their seats. "Sing it!" they cried, clapping hands. "Amen, amen!" Her melodic lines curved out in steadily rising arcs as she let her spirit dictate variations on the lyrics, finally straining upward in pure soul...
...pressure for pure research and for a thoroughly academic faculty was largely Harvard's. Says Stephen Thernstrom, the sole Brandeis member, "There was pressure from Harvard for 'first-class' people, not, say, consultants to the mayor. MIT is more promiscuous. MIT would have liked more autonomy; Harvard, as usual, was much fussier about appointments...
...December, Roxbury spokesmen Bryant Rollins and George Morrison launched a broadside against the Joint Center after Harvard and MIT received $6 million from the Ford Foundation for urban research: "Research conducted by armchair theoreticians and uninvolved intellectuals is a pure waste of money and works to maintain the status quo. By [this] time, people throughout Boston--and particularly people in our black community--should be entirely fed up with researchers and social planners and urban developers telling us and our communities what our problems are and what the solutions...
...gardening at their country cottage. Anyone who doubts her zeal for "interventionism" should talk to Britain's pub owners. After she pushed through legislation as Minister of Transport making a Breathalyser test mandatory for drunken-driving suspects, they sarcastically introduced a new drink called "the Bloody Barbara": pure tomato juice and tonic. No matter; her plan worked. Since it began, road deaths in Britain have dropped nearly...