Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...station on the road to the moon. Of more immediate concern to U.S. military leaders was the clear suggestion that manned Russian space capsules might soon be capable of observing, intercepting, and possibly even destroying U.S. scientific and military satellites whirling around in space. Moreover, Russia had gained precious information on man's ability to survive the physical hazards of the great unknown of space, and had reaped, at least for the moment, a substantial propaganda advantage by showing its heels to the U.S. space program...
...Federal Bureau of investigation has not discovered any new clues in the past six weeks that weeks 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...
Escape is a risk worth taking, for life in East Germany has become sheer misery. The crippled economy can turn out precious little of the consumer goods that East Germans need so desperately. One reason: imported Soviet managerial experts control the output of such basic industries as mining and steel, give Moscow top priority for East German manufactures. East German food production has fallen sharply in the past twelve months. Potatoes, once a staple, have been imported from the uncollectivized farms of Communist Poland; last week meat and sausage went on the ration list, to join butter, which has been...
...their shoulders, harlots on their arms, daggers in their belts and ill-gotten pieces of eight in their pockets. An appalled visitor once described it as a place where "the body of a murdered man would remain in a dancing room until the dancing was over. Gold and precious stones were cheap, but life was cheaper." A Royal Tear. In 1692 an earthquake shook Port Royal into oblivion. Morgan's skull-and-crossbones flies no more, and now Jamaica has a new green, gold and black flag of its own to fly. Last week, after 307 years of British...
...David Niven almost turned fop, with balletic precision in every mannered gesture. George Bolton comes over well, in Article 330, as the dogmatic embodiment of La Brige's constant antagonist, the Law; and as the Old Gentleman who informs Boubouroche of his long-standing cuckoldry, he is properly precious. Adele, the beautiful deceiver who reduces Boubouroche to grovelling prostration, is played by Penny Hays, mistress of the cultivated pout and expert as the picture of outraged innocence manipulating male gullibility. Jay V. Pati's Boubouroche is a little less convincing, due largely, I think, to his make-up-- a cross...