Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chain, a sum that gave ENI a modest overall profit on its investment and last week earned Cefis the compliments of Italian businessmen for consummating un buonissimo affare. Besides removing one of Esso's competitors and restoring the chain to private enterprise, the deal also gives Esso precious locations that it can utilize in its battle with leading British Petroleum and Shell...
...Brooklyn boy. No. 2, he's Jewish." The Dodgers' move to Los Angeles was still four years away. In the meantime, says General Manager Buzzie Bavasi, "there were many people of the Jewish faith in Brooklyn." As it turned out, Koufax sold precious few tickets: over the next three seasons, his record was nine wins and ten losses...
...Your excellent story on immigration [Oct. 1] brought back memories of my arrival on your shores 43 years ago, when I landed on Ellis Island to find in this promised land the most precious thing I have ever owned-the dignity of man. GEORGE M. MARDIKIAN President...
...deep trouble." But, he adds, it is not the fault of the schools. "We are expecting too much of our schools and too fast." Emphatically no, declares Admiral Hyman Rickover, the foremost gadfly in the groves of academe. "We have the slowest-moving school system in the civilized world. Precious school hours are wasted teaching children how to make fudge, twirl batons, drive cars, budget income, handle the telephone and catch fish...
...well as to perform more useful feats such as empathizing with all sorts of people. "Most kids in our society grow up without being sensitized to more than one way of organizing experience," he says. All the anomalous experiences are filtered out of their lives by anxious parents and precious schools...