Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system of interrelated maneuvers which football savants describe by such terms as "angles," "loops," "converging" and "dealing in." If Army could unscramble the pattern so as to sense, a few seconds in advance, what combinations Michigan was likely to use in certain situations, it would give the team a priceless edge. Blaik cracked the code thoroughly enough to devote most of spring and autumn practice to drilling his boys in Michiganisms...
...Footman Charley is momentarily too busy to take Edie seriously. He is hovering outside the dying butler's bedroom, waiting for the brief coma between life and death when he can safely order young Albert to pop in and swipe the old man's private notebooks, priceless treasures of information about how to work the castle pork barrel-which guests can be touched for tips, what pennies can be pocketed undetected, what overcharges can be got away with...
Spread Thin. Having spread the facts on the record, Armour Laboratories began spreading the short supply of ACTH thinner than ever. Contracts were signed with 45 leading hospitals and clinics across the U.S. To qualify for a tiny share of the priceless powder (it is not for sale), each institution must show that it has the staff and equipment to carry out carefully controlled experiments...
...giving him a few pointers on Marxist theory. More & more, of course, he finds himself worrying about the President's health. After the Boss dies, there is still plenty to do: a trip to Europe to wheedle Göring into revealing the hiding place of the priceless collections of stolen art; a dash back to the U.S. to watch the first atom bomb billow up in the New Mexico sky; a mission to Nürnberg to help convict the war criminals...
...Lavish Hampton Park in western England, home of one of Britain's richest, noblest families, is their weekend headquarters. There, hostess Lady Montdore whips them through their social paces and screens the bachelors who swarm around her daughter. Polly Montdore at 19 is more beautiful than all the priceless Hampton oil paintings put together-and colder than a Highlands wind. When the man of her choice is free to marry, she does her own proposing, pouncing on a social-climbing old rake who had won her heart by pinching her at 14. She gets her man but loses...