Word: purely
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There was disagreement among Republicans as well. When the New York Times last week polled 14 candidates asking how "hypothetical" contenders, pure and impure, should answer the A question, responses spanned the spectrum. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said once a politician has declared for the presidency, he sacrifices his right of privacy. Congressman Jack Kemp, who has had to deny 20-year-old rumors of sexual misconduct, rejected the Times inquiry as "beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate." Vice President George Bush warned the press against "unseemly inquiries into private behavior." Pat Robertson, the other Baptist clergyman seeking...
...Berg is a second-generation "king of the claimers," whose father Marion lived by the dry motto "We make our living out of other people's mistakes." In pure numbers of victories, the son has logged eight national training championships, including in 1986. But of late the cheaper achievements have meant less to him than the classic challenges. Van Berg wept last week for his special horse and for his late father. "There's no feeling in the world," he murmured, "like winning the Kentucky Derby...
...inevitable consequence of Germany's post-World War I disarray, but he can make a pretty good case. Nevertheless, claim hard-liners, softies often resort to equations and logarithmic curves to try to prove such points, thereby not only confusing their own issues but also traducing the methods of pure science...
...Society puts on a terrific musical virtually every semester, but this time they've outdone themselves. For his production of Guys and Dolls, director Jon Tolins has gathered together the best musical comedy talents at Harvard with an innovative choreographer and a well-organized technical crew. The result is pure entertainment...
...country. "By the fact that I started to teach," he says, "I discovered school is not an education." Nor, by his lights, is college. In his view, virtually all colleges have given up the essential liberal-arts core curriculum, which now barely survives in what Adler considers relatively pure form at a few scattered schools, like St. John's in Maryland...