Word: preciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...united Europe cannot live without the help and strength of Germany," he said. The French and others had suggested that the Assembly defer action on Germany until next year. But, growled Churchill, "that year is too precious to lose. If lost, it might be lost forever. It might not be a year-but the year...
...most prosperous of the Scripps-Howard chain of 19 papers. After a month's stay in Britain exploring the economic crisis, Leech had turned out a series of articles which started running in 30 U.S. papers last week. Despite the newsprint shortage, most London dailies also devoted precious space to Leech's report, while the pro-Labor press rapped him as a "poison...
...curious coincidence, the Verley Co. was the same firm which employed John Maragon, sometime Kansas City bootblack and long one of Vaughan's sharp-eyed friends, who reportedly once tried to smuggle some precious perfume oil into the country as "champagne for Mrs. Truman" (TIME...
...There were several reasons. For one, his name had been found in the records of James V. Hunt, prime subject (TIME, July 25) of the Senate's five-percent investigation. For another, according to the New York Herald Tribune, he had once tried to smuggle a bottle of precious perfume oils into the country from Europe by saying it was only champagne he was taking to Mrs. Truman...
...human lives like a petulant puppet master. With the help of a luscious French trollop (Corinne Calvet), the two men are bent on frustrating the aims of a hulking American hunting guide (Burt Lancaster) who feels that he has earned the right to walk off with some of their precious pebbles...