Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made strong on ice to surge to another medal last week, a silver in the 1,000-meter match sprint. That made the 28-year-old physical-education student the first athlete ever to win a winter and summer medal in the same Olympic year. Luding missed achieving a pure gold winter-summer double by a split second as she was nipped by the Soviet Union's Erika Salumae in the final heat of their best-of-three face-off. "It would have been fantastic to win the gold medal," said Luding philosophically, "but it was not possible." An Estonian...
...winsome, lithesome and as single-minded as a shark. She ditched the homework she brought from California, but plans to offer the excuse that she had to sing The Star-Spangled Banner three times. After so many trips onto the podium, Evans concluded, "It's always the same -- pure honor." The littlest mermaid sees everything in a race, but nobody can see her. She makes you want to fish her out of the surf somehow, and hoist her up some way, to uncover just what she really does and whether her high-speed rotary blades have twelve arms or only...
After years of dominating foes with pure strength and size, the Crimson has to rebuild after seven of its eight forward pack members graduated...
...matter of pure logic, what the war wimps did (or, rather, didn't do) two decades ago says nothing about the merits of aid to the Nicaraguan contras or Star Wars or other issues today. But it does say something important about a person's character if he hasn't lived his life in accordance with his professed values. And it obviously tests his commitment to those values as well. That's why the political-robotics technicians of both parties expend so much energy staging tableaux of loving family life, though strictly speaking the number of one's children, grandchildren...
...Trillin, the assignments have been pure gravy. "It's very natural for me to write about the city rather than the convention," he says. "Political reporters are only interested in what people are like in, say, a county in Iowa to the extent that it gives some indication of how they're going to vote. I'm only interested in how they voted to the extent that it gives me an indication of what the people are like...