Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mount Athos Sir: Your article, "The State of the Faith," July 5, was well timed, well put, and to the point. The magnificent and deeply meaningful photos of the holy mountain, Mount Athos, comprise a precious book of unwritten words-a treasure in itself...
...Cloisters, the branch of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses medieval treasures, it conveys a sense of perfect and untarnished work from a hand long since turned to dust. But it came through only by luck: a large proportion of contemporaneous objects of art made of precious metal was later melted down to provide some prince or tyrant with funds for a now-forgotten...
...m.p.h.-a record, and more than enough to win him the coveted pole position at the start. Obviously, Clark and Gurney could not hope to match Jones for pure speed. But they hoped to keep within striking distance by boring through the turns at 140 m.p.h., pick up precious seconds by making only one pit stop for gas and tires. Jones's heavier Offy, they figured, would burn fuel and rubber faster, probably need three visits to the pits...
...engaging passages in the psychological works of James describe what he imagines to be the experience of animals. "To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not the utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which...
...wedding night Puglee (Aparna das Gupta) escapes from Amulya's flower-decked bedroom to play with her pet squirrel; then she throws all of Amulya's precious books on the floor. In disgust he sends her back home saying: "If you write to me as a wife to her husband, I'll be truly happy." But Puglee cannot write. At first she sulks, then she pines, finally she fasts. But while she is fasting, she learns to write. One night Amulya comes to his room and finds a note on his bed. It reads: "Please come back...