Word: precious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stocker Roberts, piloting a Ferrari Berlinetta identical to Moss's, did precious little dusting-off. He finished second in the Grand Touring (closed car) class, twelfth overall. "I was ahead of Moss going into the first turn," said Fireball sadly. "But I came in too hot and went wide. Moss passed me, and from then on it was adiós. I never saw him again." Stocker Weatherly also had a run-in with Moss: a broken distributor rotor forced him to slow down, and Moss impatiently nudged him off the course. "I don't think he meant...
...STRATEGIC STOCKPILE. This embraces 98 separate "strategic" materials, including many that have to be imported, going all the way down to ten troy ounces of precious ruthenium metal. Current value: $5.8 billion...
...conflict of interest built into the FAA's responsibilities for Washington's air service. For an industry like the airlines, in which growing Federal control is the only alternative to chaos, Dulles is an alarming precedent, and, as the outraged citizens of Baltimore have discovered, there's precious little to be done...
Girl. To the working class she's a precious...
...comparable commercial jet. To save lead time, Convair skipped making a prototype, with the result that when the first 990s came off the production line, they could not fly at the guaranteed speed-and General Dynamics was forced to cut the sale price on early models and lose precious time in modifications...