Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maddeningly delicate operation-split it in two. He oiled the halves until they were transparent, laid them on wax tablets covered with photosensitive jelly, and exposed them to light. After that, he brushed the two tablets with fine graphite, suspended them in a copper sulphate solution with pieces of pure copper and made master plates by electrolysis...
...skepticism of his cousin, Prince Chumphot, who had officiated at a similar ceremony during the previous week. At its conclusion, Prince Chumphot had turned to a Western guest and said: 'I'm interested to know what you make of all this. Traditional, of course, you know. But pure superstition...
...steaming August day in 1946, thin, dark deputy Castel Demesmin rose in Port-au-Prince's Doric-columned, blue-and-gold-trimmed Chambre des Deputes, drew a deep breath and let fly with a hot blast of pure male chauvinism. The topic under discussion was a modest petition to let Haitian women vote and hold office. "All the miseries of this country," roared Demesmin, "come from the women. They have corrupted the public officers, the Deputies, the Senators. The Haitian woman has brought this country to ruin . . . the women who want the right to vote are so much manure...
...boldly hotted up the fire in its long cold war against Fair Trade laws (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). Macy's previous efforts to sell merchandise below fixed prices had landed it in court on such Fair Trade charges as price-cutting Doubleday books and offering "Mallinson's pure silk pussy willow dresses" at $8.94 instead of $12.95. Macy's had won on the dresses and this time the Fair Traders might find it just as hard to curb the world's largest department store...
...Down, Moses. Like other miscellanies, this one is mostly ups-&-downs. Best of the few short stories in it is The Shout, a brilliant little tale of pure terror. The short essays are lively, learned snippets from Graves's favorite golden boughs of etymology and historical myth, e.g., one of them traces an incestuous path down the lineage of Rome's haughty Caesars, another gets a hold on the book of Exodus, turns it upside down, shakes its patriarchal Mosaic to fragments, and finally puts it all together again in the image of Graves's inseparable muse...