Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oliver spurted into a 7-sec. lead. Doggedly, Altizer cut the lead to 2.9 sec.-but now he was pressing. He missed on his first attempt to lasso his ninth calf, had to whip out a reserve lariat and chase the calf again, lost a few precious seconds. "That done it," groaned an Altizer fan. "He's lost." At the end, Oliver's winning margin was 7.5 sec. The Texans glumly paid off their bets and demanded a rematch...
Canaletto to Cezanne. Other U.S. museums were also savoring their latest treasures, made all the more precious because the supply of old masters available is constantly dwindling. The Yale University Art Gallery has added Rubens' turbulent Hero and Leander, painted around 1606, when the artist was under 30. It is a painting of tragic fury with the kind of magnificent melodrama that was to appeal to the 16th century romantics...
yale, which was humiliated by Pennsylvania in New Haven last week would sorely like to win for much the same reasons. The Bulldogs have precious little chance of winning their final game...
...varsity soccer players who took the 10 a.m. train to New York yesterday are a dejected lot. They've been mowed down three times in a row by the members of the Little Three. In those games the Crimson scored only one goal (against Williams) and had precious few close shots. The team's star player, center forward Chris Ohiri, isn't getting any leg room. He tallied that solo goal against Williams, but otherwise his permanent escort of two or three defensemen is holding him to ineffectual attempts...
...classes Pennington, a teaching fellow, uses the "new critic" method of intensive textual analysis. He strongly opposes the "precious flower" approach to literature which deals in general appreciation and fears that intensive analysis destroys the beauty of a work...