Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chain with McDonald's passion for standardization, licensees get neither food nor supplies from Oak Brook. Restaurants buy their own, mostly through regional cooperatives, though naturally the purchases must meet rigid headquarters specifications. The basic hamburger patty must be a machine-cut, 1.6-oz. chunk of "pure" beef - that is, no lungs, hearts, cereal, soybeans or other filler - with no more than 19% fat content, v. 30% for some competing ham burgers. The 3½-in.-wide bun must have a higher-than-normal sugar content for faster browning...
...eclair." Plarr works devotedly trying to cure the poor in the barrio, and his judicious view of the corruption of the world is presented with such apparent justice and restraint that the reader only gradually ceases to doubt his judgment - a doubt that Plarr at last experiences himself. His pure disgust at the physical side of life matches (and is perhaps intended to represent) the ancient Gnostic heresy that held Christ never to have been made flesh, and regarded the fleshly world as simply a dirty trick played by the devil...
...there is a caste system for library books, then PZ is a shantytown for Untouchables, a repository for the forgotten or despised. Within this junkyard of print, however, there lies a treasure trove, shelved in among the romance and adventure and pure trash. In comparative secrecy, Widener wallows in a dazzling cumulative history of detective fiction in the twentieth century. --From The Widener mystery tragedy, by Josh Rubins...
...movie is not unidimensional. Lucas' well written screen-play does not make the boys into symbols pure and simple. Lucas has the courtesy to treat them as flesh and blood...
...also on a vitamin-based, high-protein diet planned for him by a Los Angeles nutritionist before the Court match. The program calls for Riggs to take approximately 450 pills a day: 100 black pellets of soybean-wheat germ concentrate, 75 liver-extract pills, 75 plastic phials of pure powdered protein, smaller quantities of vitamins E, C, Bl, B2, B complex, one vitamin A pill and several calcium pills...