Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over Australia, Schirra changed the attitude of his capsule, but he did it very slowly to save precious peroxide fuel. Nearing Mexico, Schirra announced that he was flying "chimp configuration," meaning that he was on the fuel-saving automatic control as if a chimp were piloting. When he heard that all was favorable for the full six orbits, he cried, "Hallelujah!" and over Hawaii he called out, "Aloha!" At one point, he radioed back to earth: "I have a delightful report for one John Glenn. I, too, see fireflies"-the luminous particles first noticed by Glenn outside the capsule...
...education should indeed command twice the present annual expenditure at some future date, then the children now in school are being cheated. If our cities cry out for $100 billion worth of reconstruction in the coarse of a half-decade, some years hence, we are losing time and corrupting precious human resources in the slums and ghettos of the present...
...trouble. Beating to windward (Weatherly's strongest point) toward the first eight-mile mark on the 24-mile triangular course, he could manage only a four-length lead. Eleven times in the space of five minutes Sturrock challenged with short tacks, hoping to gain a few precious seconds, his crewmen working like demons at the coffee-grinder winches. Each time, in the brutal test of skill and muscle, Mosbacher covered, instantly at first, and then more slowly as his crew began to tire. "We were doing him in," crowed an Aussie crewman...
...Federal Buresu of Investigation has not discovered any new clues in the past three months that would lead to the discovery of the $50,000 worth of gems and precious stones stolen from the Mineralogical Museum over the July Fourth holiday...
...highly secret negotiations, France's Beaumont family, which has owned the vineyard since 1670, is wrapping up the final details of a deal that would give co-ownership of Chateau Latour and its annual output of precious claret to Britain's Harvey's of Bristol Ltd. And as a world-girdling distributor of wine and spirits, Harvey's has no intention of sharing its cup with the middlemen of Bordeaux...