Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strengthen the precious little colony against the covetous desires of nearby Yemen, the British since 1959 have been linking neighboring sultanates and emirates in a new Federation of South Arabia. Aden was to join in March, but an outburst of riots sparked by pro-Yemen labor leaders and the emergence of an Egyptian-backed nationalist regime in Yemen itself persuaded Britain to speed things...
...hard nose, the tough work and the political thumb in the eye. But last week it became, for a few exalted hours, something much different. This was the occasion of the unveiling of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, lent by France to the U.S. for a few precious weeks.* It required something special-and that was what...
Sewn into the beggar's rags were coins, pearls and precious stones...
...trail led to four other gang members, whose illicit inventory included 400 Ibs. of precious aniline dyes, 220 yards of satin, $200 in British pounds, and hundreds of thousands of rubles in state loan certificates, rubies, coins and medals. A crook named "Blue Eyes" was all set to haul the swag out by car to Afghanistan. The gang had hoped to use the profits to finance a pilgrimage to Mecca. Instead, they all landed in a Tashkent jail, sentenced to terms of 10 to 15 years...
...After delivering a Christmas message in which he rejoiced at the end of the Cuban crisis (he noted that his pleas for peace at that time "were not words shouted into the wind") and pleaded for Christian unity and for peace?"of all the earth's treasures, the most precious and most noteworthy''?he addressed the 50 ambassadors to the Holy See. "The church," said John, "applauds man's growing mastery over the forces of nature and rejoices in all present and future progress which helps men better conceive the infinite grandeur of the Creator." He also asked support...