Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midair, to fly sideways, backward and forward, to feel its way through fog or snow at five miles an hour if necessary, to stop quicker than an automobile, and to lower itself vertically into clearings hardly bigger than the circle described by its rotor blades?began proving itself a priceless beast of aerial burden in the early days of the Korean war. In the last 36 months it has altered the whole world's concepts of transport, and has made itself a unique, irreplaceable and increasingly commonplace part of U.S. life...
...have, in our respect for priceless civil and human rights, used the federal authority, wherever it clearly extends, to erase the stain of racial discrimination and segregation...
Plunder of the Sun (Wayne-Fellows; Warner) is an oldtime movie chase story played against a background of ancient Zapotec ruins at Oaxaca, Mexico. A footloose insurance agent (Glenn Ford) comes into possession of several old sheets of parchment which are a clue to a priceless treasure buried among the ruins. In practically no time, he finds himself mixed up with such shady characters as a fat invalid (Francis Sullivan), a raven-haired Latin beauty (Patricia Medina), an alcoholic blonde (Diana Lynn), a mysterious fellow with a crew cut and smoked glasses (Sean McGlory). The feverish chasing is punctuated with...
...wing Republican dowagers . . . Joe may need a little breaking-in, however . . . We know a lady interior decorator who quit her job for a millionaire Representative because every time she called on the client at his swank Foxhall Road estate, Joe was slouched on the davenport with feet on a priceless antique coffee table...
...Head of Christ" (opposite) made in the mid-11th century for a church at Wissembourg in Alsace. The turquoise and ruby glow of its colors, the economy of its drawing, and the sorrowing intensity of its expression make the little medallion (reproduced at close to full size) a priceless masterpiece. It had an honored place last week in one of the summer's most important exhibitions: a 63-item survey of French stained glass up through the 16th century, at Paris' Museum of Decorative Arts...