Word: pureness
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...eagerly surrendering Taliban revealed, the reality is less appealing. "We're chasing a person," President Bush said Friday, "who encourages young people to go kill themselves, and he, himself, refuses to stand and fight." The rumors of bin Laden's escape into Pakistan persisted last week, in part on pure assumption that he must have had a contingency plan. Unless he never believed it would come to this...
...take the belt from Liston, he regained his championship by defeating George Foreman in Zaire despite an earlier 3 1/2-year absence from the ring. In Manila in 1975, he and the magnificently noble Joe Frazier fought the greatest heavyweight fight of all time, 14 rounds of explosive leather, pure will and muscle until Frazier's eyes swelled closed and he could not meet the bell...
...religious fundamentalism, claiming that belief in a literal God would fall away with the understanding of psychology. And, finally, Einstein's theory of relativity overthrew the concept that time and space were fixed and unvarying, undermining the idea that there was such a thing as absolute truth and pure objectivity...
...Ziggy did something he had never done before. In a transport of sheer frustration, he picked the bottle up in his jaws and flung it. It struck a metal table leg and shattered. The doggy treat was free! Ziggy shot me a look of pure canine triumph...
There has been no shortage of examples of courage and heroism on one side and of manipulation and cowardice on the other. The sheer cold-heartedness required to end the lives of thousands of innocents is as close to pure evil as one can imagine. At the same time, we remember firefighters sprinting into the shadow of the World Trade Center just before the towers fell. We remember the passengers on an ill-fated flight above Pennsylvania launching a last-ditch attack to regain control of an airplane, knowing they would likely die in the process. These sublime moments...