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Word: purely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result, Svicarovich reported to fall practice at 230 pounds, 13 pounds heavier than his fall weight last year. That's 13 more pounds of power, 13 more pounds of pure "Gimme the damn ball" muscle...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stairway to Kevin: Luck Be a Linebacker | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...Back in high school, you were the note-taking shit. You wrote marginalia better than Dryden or Wolfe. When you cracked Of Mice and Men, your great English teacher knew you were college material. In those days, your scribbles were pure gold and your friends cheated off your underlines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: To Underline or Not to Underline | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...This bill is a pure sham," National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League president Kate Michelman told CNN. "It?s sponsored and promoted by those who want to take away a woman?s right to choose." The rhetoric on the flip side of the issue is no less passionate. Rep. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained to CNN, "This bill doesn?t erode a woman?s right to choose; it puts limits on criminals? rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anti-Abortion Forces Knock on the Back Door | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...such quirky traditions need strong sources, why do they continue? Perhaps because Harvard students are, in some sense, natural conservatives: they respect the age and mystique of their surroundings, find even godless festivals inviting, and continue baseless customs and pure traditions as a result. If this is true, one need not worry about House character which consists of the various traditions which separate one House from another. House community, however, is a horse of a different color...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: House Community in Jeopardy | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...Clinton Administration will never admit that this is its policy. But it is. Which is one of the reasons the debate about intervention is so muddied and confused. Everyone is throwing around moralistic cliches, including an Administration that wants to portray itself as pure as snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Humanitarianism | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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