Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finer metals), orthopedic corsets, bird cages, croupiers' roulette rakes, ornate medieval shop signs, kitchen utensils, 3,000 keys, 700 padlocks, 600 door knockers, and more than 100 pairs of scissors, including one shaped like a pelican with the blades forming its beak. Coffee mills designed to grind the precious beans in the 17th century, when Madame de Sévigné purportedly scoffed that "Racine will pass-like coffee," bear little resemblance to the streamlined models sold in France today, but their shape is basically the same. A craftsman's implement bears the doughty motto: "I am Jacques...
...eventual solution might be to build more storage areas to hold the precious water and to give the park better access to Okeechobee's supply. In partial answer, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has belatedly awarded a contract for a canal that would move water directly from Okeechobee toward the glades...
...acquitted the part of Don Fernando valiantly but seemed to be worrying too much about getting all the notes to do anything with them. Gregory Sandow as Rocco was well, embarrassing. Sandow is one of those rare examples of a ham with stage fright. His singing is at once precious and stiff. His main problem is that he tries too hard, and his efforts to be expressive lead him to forcing and frequent lapses of taste...
...Peters both faced the risk of losing their bonuses if they waited two more years. A starting defensive end his sophomore year. Welz hurt his shoulder playing football and might have re-injured it if he had played for two more seasons. And Peters, whose arm is considerably more precious and vulnerable in the cold New England weather, would always have to beware of the tendonitis that sidelined him freshman year. There is also a lot more for a pitcher to learn before he is ready for major league ball. Although the Red Sox have given Peters an open invitation...
...torture and death rather than reveal his constantly changing refuge. As Allied planes drone overhead, the great war outside Buchenwald is echoed by the small one inside. Men whose lusterless eyes have long since accepted defeat and early death begin again to act like people with a future. The precious burden of the boy becomes synonymous with the tomorrow none of them had ever hoped to see. Rumors run through the camp that the war is almost over. And when the Germans continue their pathological extermination of prisoners, the inmates rise up to attack their tormenters with a meager store...