Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Political Binge. No matter: from the poor, heavily Communist Alentejo region in the south to the staunchly Roman Catholic north, Portugal went on a political binge, seeming to revel in the pure joy of participating in any kind of balloting. Although the number of political parties had been pared down from more than 50 to twelve (some parties have been banned by the M.F.A.), one Lisbon schoolboy aptly described the confusion of it all. "My father belongs to the Revolutionary Brigades, my mother is a Socialist, my brother is a Maoist," he said. "In a way, I'm glad...
...myself have a civilian background,I can understand that. Don't forget that in Portugal we emerged from a fascist regime that lasted half a century, and we have just put an end to colonial wars that lasted 14 years. We cannot pass from that situation to a pure democratic system, British-style. Britain has had four centuries of parliamentarianism...
Truman's approach to world diplomacy remained pure Kansas City. He found Stalin the Soviet dictator "as near like Tom Pendergast as any man I know." (Pendergast was the boss of Democratic politics in Missouri for almost 30 years.) Truman's intentions, according to Mee, were to thwart the Russians in Europe by stalling off a German peace treaty and keeping the Soviet Union out of the Japanese war till the bomb could clinch it for the U.S. He largely accomplished both aims, but neither was much in keeping with the visions of postwar harmony that much...
Sawhill, who will officially take over in September after Hester, 51, leaves to become rector of the new United Nations University in Tokyo, was a natural for the job. "It would have been nice to have a pure academic," said Allen Burdowski, 27, a student member of one of the search committees. "But we needed someone who could communicate the problems of higher education to the Government." Sawhill acknowledges that his most important task will be to make "a forceful case for the continued existence of a strong private higher-education system" and seek greater Government support for private colleges...
Each Carney performance is full of such remembered observations. One of six sons of a newspaperman, Art grew up in a New York City suburb, perfecting a talent for mimicry. His first gig was imitating F.D.R. in comedy bits for the Horace Heidt band. "It was pure dynamite," he recalls. His skill won him a job in radio. "Acting on the radio gave me my first experience in a lot of different character parts. It was the only training I ever had." After war service and bit parts on television, Carney was picked to play Jackie Gleason's sidekick...