Word: pureed
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Bill Bradley has usually had the good fortune to be underestimated. As a basketball player, he was widely regarded as too short and too slow, yet he wound up in the Hall of Fame. As a politician, he is often dismissed as too plodding and too pure. Yet this week, if as expected the Senate passes a < radical and sweeping overhaul of the tax system, Bradley will be able to take pride in the fact that, as he laconically notes, "I kind of suggested the idea...
...event that came to be called the "well-known accident," Clinton Davisson and his colleague Lester Germer in 1925 inadvertently stumbled on experimental proof of a crucial aspect of quantum theory. Davisson noticed that a stream of electrons beamed at a crystal of pure nickel was diffracted, a phenomenon that is characteristic of light waves. Electrons had been thought to exist only as sub-atomic particles until, just a few years before Davisson's observation, the newly developing quantum theory suggested that electrons could behave as both particles and waves. Here was proof, and it won Davisson a Nobel...
Daydreaming of freedom, one thinks of it as a clear blue light, like the frictionless intelligence of God. A sudden act: a lightning shot of electrons jumps from one still object to another and brings them both to life. Thought passes through the pure medium of freedom and accomplishes . . . creation...
...style of leadership differs markedly from his controversial and outspoken predecessor at NATO, Joseph Luns of the Netherlands. The alliance is "much less divisive now," according to Lecturer in Public Policy Richard N. Haass. "Many of the big, kind of doctrinal debates, about first use [of nuclear weapons] and pure defense [as opposed to 'forward' defense] have considerably toned down," agrees Stanley H. Hoffman, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France...
Ottawa's reaction was immediate and intense. Calling Reagan's action "bizarre" and "appalling," Prime Minister Brian Mulroney denounced the tariff as "pure protectionism...