Word: purist
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...heading into another geek group with Clash - the zealot Greek-mythology clan. Are you ready for the purist storm? Ours isn't a history lesson. We set out to make a fun roller-coaster kind of ride. If we were really doing it for the history buffs, Perseus would be naked. I don't think anyone would want to see me like that...
...subject of our great national food, the hamburger, which is after all what brings us all here today. I don't think I have enough words to declare my love for the burger. I know you always take pains to say hamburgers because you're a purist. But I think you can make anything you want into a burger. I love tuna burgers, veal burgers, beef burgers. [Laughs...
...says quite unequivocally to outsiders, “Stay out!” But while I’ll argue that CPAC is more diverse than some portray it, the obvious truth still remains: the Republican Party falls short with minorities, with youth, with the coastal intelligentsia. And divisive, purist language ensures that the GOP remains caricatured as the domain of southern white males...
...Stuker, 56, a sales and management trainer for the auto industry, is a purist and says his "butt-in-seat" flights only amount to 8.8 million since he started in 1982. (Counting all miles from flight bonuses and credit card extras, the total is an astronomical 30 million miles.) He says he's still gunning for a pure 10 million of miles his butt has actually flown...
...that's if things go according to plan. Holders of $27 billion in GM bonds have refused the company's debt-for-equity swap, making bankruptcy all but inevitable. For purist capitalists, the lasting significance of GM's pending Chapter 11 (and Chrysler's bankruptcy, filed a month ago) is the overwhelming intrusion into the private sector by Barack Obama and his auto task force at Treasury. "The day they fired the CEO of General Motors" - Rick Wagoner was dismissed by task-force co-chairman Steve Rattner in late March - "is a day we will look back on with great...