Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arrupe was transferred to Nagatsuka in 1942. When the bomb fell on Hiroshima, his old medical experience proved priceless. Disregarding reports of poisonous gases in the ruins, he and his fellow Jesuits waded into the smoldering city, taking victims back to the temporary infirmary they had set up in the novitiate...
...donate the artist's valuable personal collection of great painters to the Louvre. Picasso jokingly referred to the collection, which includes 800 to 1,000 works by Corot, Courbet, Cézanne, Braque, Matisse and others, as "bric-a-brac," but Prime Minister Pierre Messmer quickly accepted the priceless gift on behalf of France...
...call the complication is simplicity itself: Benny, who is about to lose his job, has a chance to put in a fix with the head of his union. For $350 and a case of Scotch he can get a job in a more fashionable eatery. Should he sell his priceless autographs to buy himself a shot at new celebrities...
...Vassar Clements, whose fiddling steals the show almost whenever he appears, reveals the clear distinction between a virtuoso fiddler and a fiddler who just moves his bow fast. Those like me, who have only begun listening to country music in earnest recently, will find this set a priceless introduction to the greats. Those initiated long ago may think of the collection as all of country music's all-time greatest hits...
...Well," ousted Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson said to Washington Post Reporter Sally Quinn about his official sojourn in Washington, "the experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless." Before bidding farewell to the capital, Peterson went to a dinner party with some Democratic friends (Host Tom Braden, Senator J. William Fulbright, Former Ambassador David Bruce), where he regaled everyone with an imaginary version of his dismissal. He had been summoned to "Mount David," said Peterson, and subjected to a loyalty test. Had his wife Sally really voted for McGovern? Would he please give a one-word...