Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Truman was no ball of fire in his first term. He sat meekly in the freshman row, blinked when critics called him Pendergast's "errand boy," was second only to Pennsylvania's Joseph Guffey (whose vote for New Deal measures was pure automatic reflex) in unswerving support of Administration policies...
...every ten occasions where short dresses look right there are at least five where only long dresses look absolutely right. Last night, while listening to lovely music at E's, the few women in short dresses looked pure nightclub-too boogey-woogey for the occasion...
...chronic ecstasy, his almost Franciscan loving kindness and optimism. It clearly transfigures the world for him and, for a time, is bound to. transfigure any sympathetic reader. Saroyan is one of the few contemporary writers who can articulate, in terms of common life, the indispensable text, Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God. The pity of it is that they are seldom able to see, very clearly, the devil and the man caught in the middle...
...become a Wag, a dog must be a pure-bred or crossbred weighing at least 50 lb., between one and five years old, at least 20 inches tall at the shoulder, physically and temperamentally sound. Among the dogs already enlisted are Violinist Jascha Heifetz' great Dane, Information Pleaser Franklin P. Adams' collie, Author Hendrik Van Loon's Newfoundland...
...Come on, you mortar men, rise and shine," he says softly, before reveille. The ensuing scramble is pure bedlam, because the last two men of the platoon to answer roll call get the "yardbird" detail. When the Marines sailed for the Solomons, officers debated whether to take ancient Lou Diamond overseas. Lou bellowed orders to his platoon so boisterously that he sounded like all the sergeants in the Corps. He went along...