Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worst People on Earth." The Aucas have been described by one scientist as "the worst people on earth." Relatively well-built and lightskinned, they wear little except bright body paint, with a pair of feathers stuck at a Daliesque angle in holes pierced in each nostril. A pure Stone Age people, they hate all strangers, live only to hunt, fight and kill. Their most notable products are needle-sharp, 9-ft. hardwood spears for use against human foes. Their neighbors, the Jivaro Indians, Ecuador's famed, ferocious headhunters, are said to pale with fear at the very mention...
...national level, we oppose anti-trust laws, the existence of labor unions, the reliance on social security and the movement toward a welfare state in all its forms including such insidious measures as the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Child Labor...
Great Britain has a pure jetliner capable of flying around the world to a regular timetable. In 1958, or soon after, we shall have the Comet IV, capable of flying regularly and economically on both transatlantic and Commonwealth routes. The R.A.F. has the Comet II in use as a regular military jet transport...
...many a strong man to sentimentality-Schumann's Cello Concerto. Under the pale lights, Starker's sunken cheeks looked drained of blood as he bent to the romantic work, but he never bowed to its maudlin potentialities. His tone was neither too plump nor too lean, but pure, tense and silken. He sculpted the long, melodic lines precisely, restraining himself where a lesser musician might have whipped up some phony passion, then letting his instrument sing passionately, when passion was called for. Next day Critic Roger Dettmer wrote in the American that Starker "has grown from an important...
...billion record in construction of all kinds for 1956. With increasing steel shortages, two more companies-Sharon Steel and National Steel -announced upwards of $200 million in expansion plans to add another 1,320,000 tons of capacity. In aviation, National Airlines, which has already ordered six pure-jet Douglas DC-8s, took another step into the new air age with a $46 million order for 20 new 415-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra turboprop transports...