Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vibrant rhythms of his brush linked him to the swirling style of art nouveau, but what in that art was precious and affected became in Munch a swirl of passion, often equal to that of Van Gogh. One of his first major paintings, inspired by the death of a sister, was called The Sick Child, and all his life sickness and death, suffering and fear were to be his themes. His people could cry out and the sky would seem torn apart. They might wander blankly down a street, eyes sick with anxiety, together but each alone. Few artists have...
...average American rose with the dawn and went to bed with the sun. It has even been quite a while since the average office opened at 8 a.m. Yet standard time, which is premised on such habits, has lingered on. Early-morning light is now a commodity traditionally considered precious only to farmers whose animals cry out for attention at dawn. The present-day American, becoming more urban every year, much prefers his extra hour of light to come at the other, after-work end of the day. So, at least, claimed New York State Senator Edward J. Speno last...
Nevertheless, fierce competition for dominance in the Communist world is a fact. There is no doubt that the Chinese would like to topple Khrushchev if they could. So far they have had precious few successes, though they are doing their best in world propaganda to show how resolute they are in India, how weak Khrushchev has been in Cuba. The belligerent and Spartan Peking line, perhaps required by Red China's own economic misery, may have some impact on the most doctrinaire of Communists around the world, but it is a backward and dated dogma that probably has less...
Because of misgivings, one first-class hospital may refuse to use blood collected by another with equally high but different standards. After 21 days, blood is too stale to be used whole, though its plasma can still be extracted: in New York gallons of precious blood are discarded after 21 days, but some outdated blood that should have gone down the drain goes into patients instead...
...become a bore and a nuisance. Its radio voice, powered by solar cells, is still on the air after 4½ years. Its reports translate to nothing more important than "Here I am." And unstoppable broadcasts, which may well persist for 1,000 years, clutter up a precious radio channel...