Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard life being an SDSer those days, and I gave up after a precious few of them. For one thing, I made the starling discovery that SDS meetings were a drag and tended to consume whole evening at a gulp. For another, I drifted into alternative extracurricular pursuits where people seemed to get on a lot easier with each other and where it was possible to meet a considerably wider assortment. Still, I continued to assume, come the revolution, that I would leap forthwith into the ranks of Harvard's insurgents, whoever they might be. And I continued to assume...
...told the chauffeur, who promptly drove around the corner and parked. Fielding pulled out a notebook and began scribbling away: "Concierge with hotel 43 years. Many improvements under way. When manager arrives, fireworks are expected." Tucking the notebook into his briefcase, he confided: "Notes are the most precious things. We have nightmares about losing them...
...itself is the artist's hope that some easily repeated trick of technique, some simple arrangement of circumstances or some infallible method of tapping the subconscious, may induce those high moments of creativity that are as precious as they are rare...
...celebrating a good man's release from pain and toil, and his passing into a happier life. Even the titles of the spirituals they play express a bittersweet longing for the release: "Just a Little While to Stay Here," "My Life Will Be Sweeter Some Day," "Take My Hand, Precious Lord," "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," "Bye and Bye, When the Morning Comes...
...problem basically seemed to be a lack of inspiration. Anyone who ever watched the team run its token lap before practice knows this. With the exception of a precious few, the squad crawls through this lap at minimum speed. It's a joke in every sense of the word. This was reflected in the games most of the time...