Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foolishly, or perhaps delirious in the 140°F. heat, they changed into the bathing suits they had hoped to use to paddle in the salt pools at Siwa, thus exposing their skins to the merciless sun and permitting precious moisture to be quickly evaporated from their bodies. Gudrun snapped the group again, as they drained their few remaining drops of water from plastic containers. Then they split up, Rimm and Hauser staying by the bus, Wanderscheck and the Bohms setting out for help. They staggered 35 miles before dying of thirst and exposure...
...Saigon. At night the capital's lights loom on the horizon, but none of the 14 men on duty can afford to look at them: the Viet Cong snipe constantly. The Tanlong outpost consists of six foxholes, all half-full of slimy water. A mortar pit, with its precious weapon covered carefully in canvas, stands near by, flanked by four ancient Vietnamese graves whose massive headstones provide the outpost's only cover...
...liberal arts education," she writes in Sixpence, "is a true and precious stone which can glow just as wholesomely on a kitchen table as when it is put on exhibition in a jeweler's window or bartered for bread and butter. To what barbarian plane are we descending when we demand that it serve only the economy?" The educated housewife "will be able to judge a newspaper item more sensibly, understand a politician's speech more sagely, talk over her husband's business problems more helpfully, and entertain her children more amusingly if her brain is tuned...
...Christian Democrats. Within weeks, the bipartisan effort was near success. Prospects looked so good, in fact, that the German Trade Union Federation came out sternly against the bill, and the 1,900,000-member Metal Workers Union called for protest demonstrations. Reluctant to risk the loss of those precious votes in next September's national election, the Socialists lamely backed down and announced they would not vote for the bill after...
...their ancestral village by the construction of a British dam that will soon inundate their homes, the Masai head for dry promised land under the leadership of a conman named Moses. Moses is Robert Mitchum, a diamond smuggler and quack doctor who peddles muscle tonic to the natives, packs precious stones in his stethoscope, and conducts his exodus with the unholier-than-thou sneer of a rascal who interprets Mosaic law as the survival of the fittest. Mitchum looks most comfortable when he climbs aboard an elephant called Emily and terrorizes the bureaucrat in charge of the sluice gates...