Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People's China" contains pure propaganda from the woodcuts to the letters column. It makes satisfying reading for Communists, and interesting skimming for anyone. More important, it gives a sharp picture of the kind of propaganda the U.N. has to fight if it ever hopes to win the Chinese people to the cause of democracy...
...Beer concluded, "None of the bills I have seen have any necessity. None of them really deal with the genuine Communist danger. They're pure demagogy aimed at trying to get votes and hitting the headlines. They have no utility value or need...
Willy was a cynical 34 when he married 20-year-old Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She was the daughter of a Zouave father and . an octoroon mother, and to Willy she seemed as pure & simple as "any little Tahitian before the missionaries got there." After hearing her recount stories of her childhood, Willy realized that she was also a literary gold mine. He locked her in a room, gave her pen & paper, and commanded her to write...
...accept." On Feb. 25, 1901, Morgan assembled Carnegie Steel and all the other companies into U.S. Steel-and floated $1,400,000,000 in capital, half of it in common stock. As newspapers observed at the time, the common had no visible assets behind it: it was almost pure water...
...power of Greene's book lay chiefly in his detailed character study of Pinkie, a 17-year-old hoodlum personifying pure evil, and in the religious conflict within the simple waitress who loved him. Except for a single refinement of the book's final irony, the movie treats its characters wholly on the surface. The result looks enough like a second-rate U.S. crime melodrama to make the new title seem an accurate label. Brighton Rock loses its soul when young Scarface becomes just another descendant of Chicago's Scarface...