Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...child was still pink-cheeked and healthy, but her "span of attention was very short . . . Much of her fleet light running had no purpose-it was merely motion. Her eyes, so pure in their blue, were blank when one gazed into their depths. They did not hold or respond. They were changeless...
...motion soon after the Communists began rolling). But in its blackboard arguments, NSC had never been able to make up its mind about sending U.S. troops. Infantryman Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had held that Korea wasn't worth it from the standpoint of pure military strategy; the State Department-backed by the Navy-had said it very well might be, for reasons of U.S. prestige in Asia and U.S. leadership in the world...
...with Mr. Waugh, either. In Hesketh Pearson's biography, Oscar Wilde [Harper; 1946], we find Wilde telling a florid version of it to a friend on whom he fobbed it off as a true story about one of his own family. And since Wilde was no stickler for pure originality, the tale was probably kicking around long before his time...
...Queen Wilhelmina's jubilee, 58-year-old Composer Hendrik Andriessen, director of The Hague's Royal Conservatory, had written a new score for an old drama. The grisly story, adopted by Dutch Poet Jan Engelman from one of the episodes in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, tells how pure-voiced Philomela is raped by Tereus, her brother-in-law, who cuts out her tongue to enforce her silence. The sisters get revenge by feeding Tereus the remains of his slaughtered son at a banquet. At that point the gods intervene and change all three into birds-Philomela into...
With Class Day exercises out of the way, the senior class will continue to devote itself to pure entertainment today...