Word: pureed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact that this year three women writers have been added to the previously all-male reading list is pure accident, Alfred said, adding "we were tired of Dickens" and decided to replace him with George Eliot...
...farm has everything a suburbanite dreams of. Nestled in a valley called "Paradise," a mile or so outside a tiny California town, its fresh air-pure water isolation breeds a hushed serenity. Six families live in the valley, families who left the cities and towns two or three years ago to build their own homes and grow their own food. The cow there is really named Bessie and she indeed has story-book big brown eyes. Roosters crow at dawn and pigs are even uglier and smellier than the ones you wrinkled your noses at in the children...
...million in 1955 to $279 million this year. Its 7,000 employees, half of them scattered through 17 locations around Washington, are charged with regulating a staggering $200 billion worth of goods yearly. Its powers have grown steadily ever since the agency was founded in 1907 under crusading Pure-Food Advocate Harvey Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture. In 1938, after 107 people died from use of a sulfanilamide preparation that was supposed to be a cure-all for diseases like strep throat, Congress passed a strengthened Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, providing the cornerstone...
...victim of killer bees. Naturally, these two crippled creatures fall in love. Anna confesses her past. Since Mat is a pre-ecumenical Roman Catholic, he is appalled that he has fallen for an unclean woman. But she tells him that true love has washed away her sins and the pure and simple stupe embraces...
...Jeffrey Rothstein, struggling valiantly with a wrinkled, Bozo-esque bald-cap, nevertheless succeeds as the crabby, meddling Egeus. All five of the Athenian workmen-turned-actors give good performances, but David Anderson as the bellowing, overeager Bottom deserves special notice. It is easy to play this role as pure slapstick. Anderson goes beyond mere egotism and develops Bottom as a buffoon--grabby and self-centered, but well-meaning, without snobbery and pretensions. We get the feeling that if Bottom was accused of his faults, he would stand befuddled, wondering, Me? You can't mean Me? He is a consummate...