Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians also showed the League of Nations gruesome photographs to prove that castration was practiced by Haile Selassie's troops in the Ethiopian war five years ago. On the other hand, the Italians themselves were not simon-pure: the cruelties of the troops of Rodolfo Graziani, whose colonial career last week ended in military unmanning, are famous...
...British Legation. "Who's here?" said a jubilant voice. "Bloody well everybody. We're having champagne. Come on." But Ray Brock had more to do that morning. In the streets he was caught up in what he described as "the most moving and heartfelt demonstration of pure joy and thanksgiving that this correspondent has ever seen...
...been talking like a Dutchman too. In Britain last month, just before he flew home to endorse the President's Lend-Lease Bill, Willkie broadcast a message to the German people (TIME, Feb. 17) affirming his opposition to everything that Hitler stands for. Said he: "I am of pure German descent. My family name is not Willkie but Willicke. My grandparents left Germany 90 years ago, and they did this in protest against tyranny, and in order to live as free people." When Nazis heard that, their patience, never very durable, wore thin and snapped...
...reflex act must begin with a stimulus outside the body, but man's mind can will motor activity spontaneously, can even pursue pure contemplation (as in pondering a problem). "Between energy [i.e., matter] and mind," says Sherrington, "science has found no 'how' of give and take. . . . Physiology has not enough to offer about the brain in relation to the mind to lend the psychiatrist much help...
Determined at the age of 15 to become a doctor, Jones happened by pure chance to enter the work in which he passed his life. An errand brought him late one night to a party at which his uncle, a caterer, was in charge. That was in 1886. "I decided then and there," said Jones, "that I would work giving parties like that, and I am not sorry that I made the decision...