Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, for pure comfort, the bathing suit and a broad expanse of ocean will never be superceded. For a more practical substitute, bermuda shorts--for male or female--will always do. They come in cool materials like denim or cotton khaki...
...half-castes were eligible to vote. And even among the whites who did vote, Malan got less than a majority-but he won a sweeping electoral victory. From dorps (villages) and the poor-white slums of the Rand, his Nationalist supporters flocked to the polls to keep the land "pure" of "black barbarism" and "British legalism." Of South Africa's 1,600,000 voters, 86% voted: 640,000 for Daniel Malan, 760,000 against...
...protective arm around the girl. "I will treat her in a way which will bring the sweetest revenge upon the wicked Moslems." he said. "I will bring her up as a Moslem, and restore her to her relatives when she grows up. And she will be as pure as the white snows of the Himalayas. That will teach the Moslems that a Sikh is pious in peacetime, just as he is invincible...
...great] with a glorious hotheaded 'Somehow!' " In short, Author Cooper, himself a physicist hiding under a pseudonym, sets off a merry little stink bomb in the sacred precincts of High Science, as if to show that the laboratory atmosphere is not always filled with the ozone of pure disinterestedness...
Murphy heard him mumbling as the doctors worked over him. "Say son," he said," have you ever heard of Professor Packard? He runs a speech remedial course. You ought to go see him." The veteran was enraged, but evidently thought it over. In three weeks, he had reverted to pure Brooklynese and a semblance of normality...