Word: preciousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reports have been circulating for weeks that it is a 40-carat diamond, one carat for each precious year. Price: anywhere between $400,000 and $1,000,000, depending on quality...
EVEN before the Apollo 11 astronauts were flown to Houston, a cargo nearly as precious was rushed to the Manned Spacecraft Center. Transported separately so that the whole shipment could not be lost in a single accident, two boxes containing some 60 lbs. of lunar soil and rocks were flown off the U.S.S. Hornet in two helicopters and taken to Johnston Island. From there, they were airlifted aboard two planes directly to Houston, then trucked to the Lunar Receiving Lab (LRL). The space agency gave the rocks such VIP treatment that NASA Administrator Thomas Paine, Robert Gilruth, director...
...satellite data. They have signed a treaty for the safe return of any of their spacemen who inadvertently come down within the other nation's boundaries. But the competition remains intense. Moscow continues to maintain almost complete secrecy, never announcing launch dates or mission goals in advance, releasing precious little information during or after a mission, and never allowing an American to witness a launch...
...Brubaker has already paid for everything--with huge chunks of his soul and his precious time. So when Catherine (her name is Gunther instead of Deneuve, she is Brubaker's boss's wife--a fact which eludes him through most of the film, and her life is similarly desolate and sterile) comes to his attention at Gunther's party (yes, this film begins with one too) and he says, "Name's Brubaker. Buy you a drink?" It's a masterstroke of justice that she replies, "I'll get my things...
...GIVEN time Harvard as plenty of learned scholars, but precious few transcendent teachers. It is the latter who give Harvard its special character and who enable the College to make its truly indelible impact on students over the years. The do so not only through what and how they teach but also through what and how they teach but through what they are--towering personalities...