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Word: purees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberalism in general today is pure, unadulterated demagogery," Myra Tanner Weiss said Tuesday in a statement to the CRIMSON. Miss Weiss, candidate for the Vice-Presidency on the Socialist Workers Party platform, attacked both Gov. Adlai Stevenson and Senator John S. Sparkman as enemies of the working class movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Socialist Slams Liberalism | 10/16/1952 | See Source »

...pure Basque, exclusively descended from Basques, I am ashamed of the intent to present the Spanish Basques as a picturesque, dancing and pseudomystic people, when they are the most practical, active and earnest of the Spaniards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 13, 1952 | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...Secret." Williams' warmest admirer would not call him either a mental giant or a man of burning ambition. He started his exposures by pure accident, continued them by doggedly applying ordinary business ethics. He is like a man who pulled at a loose thread; he got interested, kept pulling until the whole covering that screened one of the worst U.S. public scandals was unraveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Man Who Pulled a Thread | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...woman playing first flute in the Boston Symphony? "A very serious matter," wrote Critic Rudolph Elie in the Herald, "and I am not a little dismayed by it." But there she was, when the orchestra opened its season last week, her flute tones firm, pure and accurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boston Picks a Woman | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

Author Malaparte begins his pitch with a sugary invocation of his victims. "The American army," he coos, "[is] the loveliest, the kindest . . . army in the world. . . I like Americans. . . and I proved it a hundred times during the war. . . Their souls are pure, much purer than ours. I like the Americans. . . because they believe that Christ is always on the side of those who are in the right, because they believe that it is a sin to be in the wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseiling Nausea | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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