Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers of TIME should be very grateful for your perceptive and courageous article on "The Death Industry." I am reminded with real sorrow of the thousands of our most precious young men who died and were buried in alien lands with no better than an Army blanket to wrap them in. Why are we so much better than they, or have a better future, because we lie in moisture-proof vaults in mahogany caskets...
...addition of two years and the subtraction of ten pounds (Uncle Sam shaved off his sideburns) seem to have effected precious little difference in the Tennessee tomcat. At 25 he still looks 17, still holds his li'l ole "gweetar" at crotch level and lets the spasms run through his legs while his eyes glaze and unintelligible phrases spurt from his doll-baby mouth. Between ballads he still looks like the hero of a girl's school Hamlet...
...that measure different kinds of infra-red radiation coming up from the earth. They are working splendidly, and their reports will give new information about the earth's albedo (reflectivity) and about the temperature and humidity of the upper layers of the atmosphere. This sort of data is precious to meteorologists...
Still the impression grew that Rockefeller, with an eye to 1964, had been campaigning as much for himself as for Nixon. His job was to woo independents, and he produced precious few. In September he rejected the Eisenhower-Nixon old-age medical-care plan and plumped for Kennedy's social security-based system. When asked in Geneva, N.Y. if he agreed with Nixon that U.S. prestige was at an alltime high-a key point in the debate with Kennedy-Rockefeller said: "I wouldn't make such a flat statement." When asked in New York City...
...Matheson, Dent and Joseph Henry had not found a substitute currency in opium grown in British India. They were soon landing the drug in the Pearl River estuary at the rate of 6,000,000 lbs. a year. They defended themselves morally by calling opium "a harmless luxury and precious medicine except to those who abuse it," while taking the business line that if they did not sell it to the Chinese, someone else would...