Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been following the Gen. Ed. debate in your columns with astonishment I went to Radcliffe in the had old days before the Red Book and have not forgotten the sense of excitement and adventure with which twice a year we opened the catalogue to choose our precious distribution courses prescribed only within the broadest limits. Was it going to be philosophy anthropology, or history? An introductory survey of literature or could we talk our way into a more advanced and specialized course...
Last week, for a change, the five-year-old A.F.L. was getting plenty of recognition and precious few snickers. Maybe its teams were still no match for the titans of the N.F.L. - although those were fightin' words in Buffalo and San Diego. But there was one contest in which the A.F.L. was every bit the equal of its older rival: spending money. Armed with a $1,250,000 advance against its new five-year TV contract with NBC −and with orders to "get competitive" at any cost -the fledgling league plunged gleefully into a dollar-for-dollar battle...
...central paradox-that total degradation can produce spiritual exaltation-as if it were a pet cat. Speaking of his beggar's lice, he says: "Having become -as useful for the knowledge of our decline as jewels for the knowledge of what is called triumph, the lice were precious...
...Liberator, I've found a Liberator," rose an excited cry. Cheers and laughter followed the discovery. Ancient copies of the Boston Evening Transcript, New England Farmer, and the Fashion Herald were trampled underfoot in the stampede to find a precious Liberator. When the search was exhausted, people collected the less exotic relics, such as Intourist travel folders...
...ideals of the Jamestown colony have grown unreal and stale like the values of Plymouth. The men who backed the Jamestown venture were no other-wordly visionaries, but practical men of business. The Virginia Company hankered after precious metals, a Northwest Passage, and raw materials with which to produce "all the commodities of Europe, Africa and Asia, and to supplye the wantes of all our decayed trades." Bradford's "spirite of God and his grace" were conceits foreign to the minds of these entrepreneurs. In return for their investment they wanted earthly dividends of the sort envisioned by Michael Drayton...