Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first great test of the men-and the bravura sequence of the picture-confronts them unexpectedly, en route to North Africa, when their ship is torpedoed. They pass the test because they have become, almost unknowingly, trained and efficient soldiers. It is much later, after a stretch of pure boredom, that they meet their first hand-to-hand test as warriors. As they advance toward it, bayonets fixed, the picture ends...
Renaissance faces of children and infants, their features luminous with hunger and portentous of the incalculable future, this record achieves pure tragic grandeur...
Severe, even capital, punishment is recommended for those destroyers of America, the ones who think that all deserve just treatment. The pure American will be idolized, he being a combination of all races not hated, if there be any. The best advice we now offer is that he ponder the advertising he could gain by installing as the first leader of this league one who should soon be out of a job, that ace hater and believer in racial discrimination, A. Hitler...
Tarakan, a triangular island some 15 miles long and eleven miles wide, was a rich prewar fuel-oil reserve. Some of its product was so pure it could be pumped directly into ships' bunkers. The oil was a big long-range item, but it was Tarakan's airstrip that was the immediate military attraction...
...fair oasis in the purest desert" of the afterworld. Job, his wife, God and the Devil are the actors, and the theme is the place of reason (or lack of it) in man's lot under God's hand. Says God (who, like his servant, is pure New Englander in sense and idiom): I've had you on my mind a thousand