Word: preciously
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...your precious blood...
...their precious blood...
...store used to be special. Just getting ice cream, you could feel there was something funny, and good, about the place: the workers, and the owner, were having fun. And there was something more, too: what was rarest about Steve's--precious, even, to the workers--was the sense, allowed to us, that the store was partly our own. We helped decide how Steve's would evolve, and we therefore became intensely attached to the place--proud of it, and willing to worry over the hundred little decisions that keep coming up as you try to sustain a little working...
...aphrodisiacs-the goods and services denied the majority of Chinese. Butchers have virtually unlimited access to meat that is rigorously rationed. Truckers have proved ingenious in buying merchandise where it is plentiful and selling it where it is scarce. Physicians can provide hard-to-get medicine and that precious possession, their time; doctors in state clinics are obliged to examine ten or more patients an hour...
...prevalent in every part of the country, from the poorest rural communes to the most luxurious compounds reserved for the elite. In the countryside, for example, peasants are allowed only two bars of bath soap and two or three light bulbs a year. But more of these precious items, as well as scarce fresh vegetables, chicken and eggs, can readily be obtained by anyone with an obliging relative in the commune supply department. Butchers have devised a simple means to bypass rationing to benefit their relatives and favorite customers. The scheme is based on the fact that each consumer...