Word: purest
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...sports to the world of entertainment, he had a rare gift for making hard work look like fun, and miracles seem as easy as a stroll down to the candy store. But there was something more to it than that. Magic, in a sense, seemed to embody all the purest qualities that attract us toward sports. Innocence. Enthusiasm. Joy. The Olympic spirit at its best...
...hands to the task of building more than just houses; they are also being given the chance to become the carpenters of their own futures. But the children of Camden, like all poor children in all dying cities, need more than pilot projects and symbolic gestures. "Camden is the purest distillation of our policy of not-so-benign urban neglect," says Congressman Rob Andrews. "We cannot afford to just write off 10% to 15% of the American public as irredeemable. Anyone who has any compassion must feel this...
...hopes to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. "Ted is the great 'I am,' and anybody he comes in contact with is a means to an end -- his end," says Wussler, who remains on good terms with his former boss. Others are convinced Turner's latest ambition is the purest expression so far of the hero complex he developed as a child while devouring history books. "The culmination of his life would be if our country gets into such a crisis that there is an outcry that Ted take over and save us all," says former associate Hogan. "He carries that...
Biosphere 2 is not the only project to blur the line between hokum and hard science. In fact, a vital symbiosis seems to be developing. Today even the purest adventuring, from climbing Mount Everest to trekking across Antarctica, often comes cloaked in scientific respectability. Consider the 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition. Publicity about the seven-month trek played up the scientific research: collecting snow samples, conducting experiments in meteorology and monitoring the team's physiology. But the expedition emerged mainly as an exotic sporting event. To date, few scientific findings have been published, and critics point out that such information...
...purest, slimiest form (see above), plagiarism is basically a bad thing. This kind of plagiarism entails dishonesty, thievery and stupidity--all things of which I am generally not fond. I copied an "original" limerick about a camel straight out of a children's poetry book in Mrs. Rubin's third grade class, and I'm still sorry about it. (Especially since Mrs. Rubin owned the same children's poetry book.) Professor Richard Marius, the director of Harvard's expository writing program, once wrote a story about a public hanging--then found the same exact story underneath someone else's byline...