Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge's workmen didn't snub the rumors or try to stifle them. Forthrightly and honestly, they blasted open their kiosk island and laid it before the public gaze. Thundering pneumatic drills proved the strength of their concrete. Sledge hammers exposed cross-section after cross-section, showing it pure and well-mixed to the last pebble. Today, disinterested students can stand before a saw-horse guard rail and examine the dismembered rubble: mute testimony to the honesty and conviction of a few simple workmen...
...Reverence. Two weeks ago, in a newspaper statement, Dalmia reminded the public that he and other Indian industrialists had contributed heavily to the Gandhi Memorial Fund, one of the government's pet charity projects. "But," said Dalmia, "truly speaking, this was not pure charity . . . We gave . . . not because of reverence for the departed high soul, but because many of us were expecting that by so doing we would not be dragged into the sphere of action of the Income Tax Investigation Commission...
...Self-accusation is prominent in British films, and may be evoked by wishes no less than by acts. Characters feel guilty when circumstances beyond their control produce fatalities coinciding with unconscious wishes . . . However, the pure in heart find that the authorities of this world and the next are their allies. The hero, temporarily distressed by a false charge, discovers that the police know all along that he is innocent, and are quietly working side by side with...
...soon grew into a great social institution and outlived all the similar driving clubs around Boston. Its colorful races during the twenties made the Club a haven for New England's trotters and pacers. But the Club's pageantry declined as the old-timers, raised in the tradition of pure harness racing, began...
...long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century predecessor, she needs most of the rest of the book to convince him that her pure ears are deaf to any plea short of wedding bells...