Word: pureed
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...West Pakistanis were also determined to "wear the pants" as far as running the country was concerned. Once, the Bengalis were proud to be long to Pakistan (an Urdu word meaning "land of the pure"). Like the Moslems from the West, they had been resentful of the dominance of the more numerous Hindus in India before partition. In 1940, Pakistan's founding fa ther, Mohammed AH Jinnah, called for a separate Islamic state. India hoped to prevent the split, but in self-determination elections in 1947, five predominantly Moslem provinces, including East Bengal, voted to break away. The result...
...theological variety and a gradual opening up to other Lutheran denominations-the middle-of-the-road American Lutheran Church (2,600,000 members) and the more liberal Lutheran Church in America (3,100,000 members). The hard-line conservatives want to keep the L.C.M.S. theo logically exclusive and pure. But, as with earlier Christians, seemingly small differences can mean a lot. Moreover, the issues have been intensified by some hard-nosed power politics within the church...
When the shooting stopped, Ann-Margret's anguish did not. Stone pro that she is, she went ahead with a four-week run in Las Vegas. Pain lent a darker resonance to her voice and presence, even in moments of razzmatazz. Pain came through wild and pure in her song about Marilyn Monroe: Does Anybody Out There Love Me? At the end of the run, nerves shot and viruses acting up, she was rushed to a hospital...
...back-up singer with Delaney & Bonnie. Such rock celebrities as Leon Russell, Stephen Stills and Ry Cooder were happy to play back-up on her new (and first) A & M album -perhaps because of the sensational way she can bend a slow romantic ballad to a voice of pure honey and magnolia...
...heart attack suffered while taping the Dick Cavett Show; in Manhattan. "I'm going to live to be 100 unless I'm run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver," quipped Rodale, a millionaire who followed his own advice: avoid refined white sugar and eat only pure foods. It was by disseminating that counsel in such Rodale Press magazines as Prevention (circ. 1,025,000) and Organic Gardening and Farming (circ. 725,800) that the energetic popularizer of sunflower seeds became a hero of the natural-foods movement. A versatile businessman, Rodale was a partner in an electrical...