Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happiness was compounded of simple pleasures, the sight of the roads through the magnificent country, the cheerful little taverns, the abundance of good plain food, the clean fresh rivers where he bathed morning & night. Morning after morning he awakened before dawn, breathing the pure air and listening to the sounds of the forest, the wind in the trees, the bells on the horses, sometimes the distant howling of wolves. Often he lay awake at night, seeing the moon and stars through the treetops and listening to the subdued talk of the frontiersmen...
...employ the graduates in its plantations. The school does not teach banana culture, admits no students because of political connections, markets no surplus produce for fear of being accused of exploiting the students' labor. Said one relieved staff member, long a United Fruit employe: "We feel as pure as missionaries here...
...know and I know that it was not "a good fight." We know that it stank. We know that every possible chance was used by the speakers of the Republican Party to hit below the belt, to frighten the people by half-truths and pure lies. . . . What uniting is done, and the elections show that it will be done, will be in spite of the part the Republican "thinkers" have played, not because...
...company named Londonderry, paid out a hard-earned $89 last January to place a two-inch advertisement in three publications: the San Francisco Chronicle, the magazine section of the Christian Science Monitor and Simset Magazine. The ad read: "Ice Cream. As low as 8 a pint. Sure to be pure-you make it. Combine cream, milk or evaporated milk, sugar and Londonderry. Whip-then freeze-that's all. No ice crystals ... 15? package makes 2 qts., any flavor...
British reviewers took Kiss the Blood off My Hands seriously. Their main complaint: the last two chapters were pure sensationalism...