Word: preciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single out this precious item because, speaking as a writer and a Roman Catholic, I consider Mr. Waugh the most interesting of contemporary authors from the first standpoint, and the very deadliest from the second...
...Debacle. Finance Minister Ramon Beteta had denied repeatedly that devaluation was coming. When the change came, the public was caught flatfooted. Some drew their bank savings and went on buying sprees. The foreign credit manager of one bank arrived at his office late to find careless clerks doling out precious dollars at the old rate. In the Calle Isabel la Catolica, flooded by recent rains, money changers stood shin deep in water, clinking handfuls of gold coins and arguing prices. They offered six and seven pesos for a dollar and readily went higher. Anxious travelers and others who urgently needed...
...affair on Orizaba, however, had only touched off a growing Mexican resentment. The slaughter of precious but aftosa-ridden cattle had been hard to take. And Mexican tempers had long been riled by the behavior of some U.S. members of the anti-aftosa commission. Some of them (one U.S. official described them as having a "Texas mentality") had scoffed at their well-educated but poorly paid Mexican colleagues. Few of the Americans bothered to learn Spanish, few tried to understand Mexican temperament...
...long channel already littered with ships burning, ships sunk, ships stranded." Shells poured in from long-range German artillery, bombs fell constantly, German E-boats dashed in from nearby waters and added disruption to confusion. The 39 British destroyers (which took off 103,399 soldiers) threw open their precious watertight doors to make more room, served simultaneously as carriers, leaders, patrollers, defenders against aircraft-and hazards to smaller craft. Turning and twisting at high speed to avoid bombs, their roaring wash flooded or capsized scores of loaded dinghies, launches, yachts. Collision in the dark, too, "was a great worry," reported...
...Hollywood was now almost knee-deep in TV. Warner Brothers closed a $1,000,000 deal (contingent on the FCC's sanction) with New York Post Publisher Dorothy Thackrey to buy her two West Coast radio stations and a precious Los Angeles TV permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...