Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerned about his safety and his future should have attempted. But Charles Lindbergh's 1927 pioneering solo flight across the Atlantic in a single-engine plane that cruised at less than 100 m.p.h. was surely the most glorious stunt of the century-one of those pristinely pure but magnificently eloquent gestures that awaken people everywhere to life's boundless potential. For most of his life Lindbergh was looked upon as an argonaut of the air age, a Ulysses from Minnesota. When he died of cancer of the lymphatic system last week at age 72, America lost not only...
...They accepted as the danger threshold the one laid down by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act: a 1.5% concentration of car boxy hemoglobin (COHb)-the proportion of the body's oxygen-transport system that has been usurped by CO. Nonsmokers breathing pure air, they found, had a natural concentration...
...such subjects as "Do Rich Women Quarrel More Frequently than Poor?" as well as a column signed "Barbara." But one journal could not contain him; Bennett had realized that he could write anything. Within a few years it was a critical commonplace to grade his output: Prime Bennett (literature), Pure Bennett (for fiction lovers), and Just Bennett (for those who read anything...
...Pure Bennett and Just Bennett were often eager, free fantasies based on the luxuries he was increasingly able to buy. He loved yachts and grand hotels. Two of his greatest bestsellers, Grand Babylon Hotel and Imperial Palace, are phantasmagorias crowded with counts and chandeliers. To the connoisseur of popular fiction they are still texts; Arthur Hailey, for one, admits to studying them for his own whopper, Hotel...
...Weber and gone on to anticipate some of the expressive, warm-blooded styles that would be heard later from the leading German romantics. There is a point in the first movement, for example, when the piano becomes a discreet accompanist (arpeggios mostly) and the clarinet takes a solo: pure Schumann. The piano's entry in the second movement has a stride and harmonic ingenuity prophetic of Chopin...