Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German troops below Rome the ill wind was a blessing, completely canceling out superior Allied air power, offering a priceless opportunity to crack the beleaguered Fifth Army beachhead on Cape Anzio...
...size plant. Butyl production is still negligible. The U.S. can still use Du Pont's neoprene (production: 49,000 tons yearly) for tubes. But the military long ago grabbed the lion's share of that. This left, as the only tube alternative, Buna S, mixed with the priceless crude rubber from the shrinking stockpile. On this basis the U.S. can afford few tubes...
This pitted, tortured soil was Russia's proudest. At Ropsha Peter the Great built a magnificent palace. At Krasnoye Selo Alexander Suvorov, the 18th century hero, trained his men and shouted: "Battles are not won in offices." At Peterhof the Czars kept their priceless works of art. Now the palaces and treasures had been wrecked, looted. But Russian soil was back in Russian hands...
...closest thing to professional entertainment was given by "Irish Puss" Gibbons with his priceless solos of old Irish songs accompanied by the inimitable pianist Howie Locke. I could honestly listen to this combination for hours, but this duet hasn't got the endurance of the aforementioned Hubert I could ramble on and on about the new-found talent, but it would run into somebody else's column...
From the Mayo Clinic came a breathless story of a hunt for three lost tubes of almost priceless radium...