Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usually the case, DeBakey is in a jam between journeys to far cities or foreign lands, he spends the dawn hours writing scientific papers in longhand. He finds that the time it takes to write makes him use words with the precision that is so precious to him. If he has a day or two to spare before a speech or manuscript is due, DeBakey dictates to a tape recorder and later revises the typed draft. His professional bibliography now numbers no fewer than 619 scientific reports...
...firm ground. The wealthy Sun papers-the Sun, Evening Sun, and Sunday Sun-carry almost as much advertising linage as the New York Times. By spending lavishly on news coverage, they make just about everybody's list of top papers in the U.S. But they spend precious little on their own employees. They pay a top minimum of $150 a week for experienced reporters; 61 U.S. papers pay higher salaries, including the Kenosha News, the Napa Register, the Pontiac Press, the Gary Post-Tribune. The Sun life-insurance policy pays only $500 per employee-not enough to cover burial...
...always escorted") and don'ts ("no excessive displays of affection") designed to ensure that they do not "contribute to the portrait of the 'Ugly American.'" The students pay their own expenses, prepare their own meals, even kick in a minimum of $10 each to help buy precious building materials...
...Gaulle's aim was to seize control of as many local governments as possible for his U.N.R. party, which has precious little of the grass-roots support it will need to survive its creator. The campaign proved a dismal failure. Though 14 of the 16 Cabinet ministers won, the U.N.R. as a whole failed to gain a majority on the council of any city of more than 100,000 population except Bordeaux, which the party already controlled. Particularly galling to De Gaulle was the lack of a majority in Paris itself, which the Gaullists had been confident of capturing...
...contracted beriberi from living on soda crackers in college, never earned more than $8,500 a year, never took a loan. He was precious, persnickety, sometimes naive. He refused to recruit players or give athletic scholarships. "I would rather lose every game than win one by unfair means," he said. Over the years Amos Alonzo Stagg won a fantastic 310 games - and invented just about everything there is to football today...