Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official proclamation of the Menderes government, Turkey last week was observing the 100th anniversary of Turkish journalism. But there was precious little cheering among what remains of Turkey's free press-for the government happened to be celebrating the occasion by clapping 72-year-old Ahmed Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish newsmen (TIME, Jan. 18), into jail for violating the oppressive national press laws. His crime: reprinting in his daily Vatan (Nation) articles by U.S. Newspaper Tycoon Eugene C. Pulliam (the Indianapolis Star, nine other papers) that "belittled" Premier Adnan Menderes. For that, Yalman began a 15½-month...
...British or U.S. forces, the Bundeswehr had no range on which it could carry out air-to-air, or air-to-ground missile firings, and what little flying Luftwaffe pilots could get in was done under the noses of Soviet observation posts on the East German border. So precious is space within West Germany's constricted borders that Strauss argued he could not even find storage room for the 90-day supply of matériel that NATO has asked the West German forces to maintain...
Before a race he clumps up and down the course, a fireplug figure with eyes of icy blue looking for the crack or bump that could cost a precious hundredth of a second. On the Cortina run last month, Monti won his fourth straight two-man world title by teaming with Brakeman Renzo Alvera (who ekes out a living sweeping the local rink). In the four-man competition, Monti was back in third place on the final day when he laconically informed his crew that he was going for broke. Rocketing with controlled fury down the icy run, Monti gave...
...style steering wheel, he handled the steering ropes with the sensitive, iron hands of a jockey, hit speeds close to 90 m.p.h. At the 180° Shady Corner curve, he swung high on its sheer wall, then dropped surely down to the narrow slotted straight away to pick up precious speed. When the times were computed, Monti had won the National A.A.U. two-man championship. What was more, Monti's best time of 1:12 broke the course record...
...Lippmann and those who echoed him seemed to slide too easily over a key point: gains made at the expense of increasing government interference with the economy might kill or strangle something more precious than the gain. "We are not slaves to our luxuries," said a member of the Council of Economic Advisers last week. "The workers have achieved a five-day week; they have taken part of their payment in leisure. If we need to produce more, we could go back to a six-day week and get a 20% increase in growth immediately." Said Special Economic Adviser