Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps Sergeant Dick Taylor (who, though wounded later, kept at his job) from a landing barge, with his camera focused on the bow. The barge is under fire. The men in it, crouched low, show a physical, animal restlessness more revealing-and far more complex-than any manifestation of pure fear. Beyond the bow of the barge, wavering with the motion of the water, and terrifyingly close, loom the upper floors of bleak Norman seaside houses. The barge opens its mouth. Not in a neat, eager, clattering rush as people have sometimes imagined, but wretchedly, one by one, crabwise...
...perfect in its infinite human implications that, when Mann finished, he had written the story of a story of a story of a story. Step by step, Joseph the Provider is hard going. But from time to time, on the book's Saharan horizons, loom rich oases of pure storytelling-some as long as a novel...
Italy's new Premier, gentle Ivanoe Bonomi, got a rough ultimatum from London: put ex-Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio back in the Cabinet, or else. For Italy's anti-Fascist politicians, proud of their "pure-of-Fascism" Government, it was a grievous blow...
...Sforza, elder Philosopher Statesman Benedetto Croce and aggressive young Communist Palermo Togliatti, who was known as "Ercole" (Hercules) when he worked with the defunct Communist International in Moscow. Said Bonomi of his Cabinet: "No one, absolutely no one, with any Fascist connections at all is in it; only men pure of Fascism...
...mold grows is an ideal medium for bacteria; if any get in, they destroy all penicillin present in three hours. And when all these hazards are survived, the yield is fantastically small. The broth from which powdered penicillin is extracted contains only two to six thousandths of 1% of pure penicillin...