Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter Olympics last year, took a practical view of one of her trophies. "It's a lovely medal," she said thoughtfully, "but it's too heavy to wear and it won't make a good ashtray. What can you do with six ounces of pure gold...
...Manuel's last music because she and German were quarreling about minor details of Manuel's will. The more poetic theory: just before his death, Manuel had told Maria that the role of God in La Atlantida must be sung by one who was absolutely pure in heart and María, now a wrinkled, white-haired 62, felt that there is no such man in the world today...
South Africa announced that it would sell 100,000 ounces of 22-carat gold at $38.20 an ounce through the London brokers Mocatta & Goldsmid. (On the basis of 24-carat or "pure" gold, the Fund's yardstick, that meant a premium of about $6.50 over the $35 rate.) South Africa said the gold was not being sold for monetary purposes but for industrial and similar uses, and was thus beyond the Fund's jurisdiction. The Fund thought differently. Since the brokers kept mum on the gold's destination, the Fund suspected that it was going to hoarders...
Gotta keep your back straight ... pure Allais, of course, and it goes like this and always leaves the demonstrator on the rug ... then, after all, that's all wrong, and something called Arlberg (not in Life magazine, so who knows?) is really ... can't have your can sticking out ... really an almost metaphysical thing, you know: counter-rotation is the essence...
...Casey as "the Irish Dostoevsky"-though O'Casey says he happened to know that Yeats had barely looked into Dostoevsky. Appalled by such duplicity and filled with hatred of the new Eire's clerical atmosphere, O'Casey packed up and went to England, where his pure heart is still parked...