Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less than a month, there are too many other concerns. Like choosing a name, furnishing the baby's room, reading up on infant care and attending childbirth classes. Above all, McPherson must tackle the overriding problem that now confronts most expectant American mothers: Who will care for this precious baby when she returns to work...
...February 1939, and that on that day a rainbow was seen and a water pail was found unaccountably full of milk. When he died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, last April 4, leaving eleven published books, five sons and a widow, Trungpa, who was called Rinpoche (a Tibetan honorific meaning precious one) by thousands of his Buddhist students, a remarkable odyssey came to a close -- at least in this life. The journey actually began months before Rinpoche's birth, when a holy man died. "The monks of Surmang were feeling lost without their abbot," Rinpoche wrote, "and were eager that...
...truer, sadder sigh has never escaped from a movie sound track. He has, after prodigies of bloodshed and the loss of precious friends and values, fulfilled the classic destiny of a movie hero. Garbed in a mysterious, often near comical purity, he has arrived in a profoundly corrupted community and, by imposing his eerie conscientiousness on it, awakened its conscience. Now the city is at peace, in part because Ness has taken upon himself some of its wickedness. Or, as he puts it, "I have become what I beheld, and I am content that I have done right...
Still, many wary, independent women, conditioned to comfort dressing by the Reebok revolution, are apparently determined to defy the tyranny of dictatorial designers and the fashion press. They are not about to attack closets with scissors to slice off their precious collection of skirts. "There is something elegant about a hint of knee or a hint of ankle," says one Chicago socialite who has legs worth flaunting, "but there is absolutely nothing elegant about an expanse of thigh. Women are comfortable in their long skirts. Who wants to think about how they cross their legs or walk up steps?" Adds...
Thirty minutes later--suspiciously good time for an eleven-year-old on foot, Dewitt realized--Dewitt Jr. returned clutching one of the most precious prints in the pantheon of film humour, a rare jewel by the Leonardo da Vinci of screen guffaws, Preston Sturges. Dewitt felt a rush of parental pride...