Word: preciously
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...film version of Love Story, fear not. Marcie, heiress-apparent to the former all-Ivy wing, is no match for Jennifer Cavilleri. She is, however, outrageously rich, mysterious, athletic and beautiful. Oliver's first comment about her is that she has a "fantastic ass." Obviously, Oliver's precious leftism does not include feminism...
...corner stood Alan M. Dershowitz, Harvard professor of Law and defender of our precious individual liberties, bouncing up and down on his tiptoes and booming out in a high-pitched, rapid-fire cadence. In the other stood William F. Buckley, author, columnist, and Yale man, pleading--with raised eyebrows--for a decent and self-governed society in his cool, calm, collected style...
...Visit a public library's genealogy room and delve into its card file and book collection. Check newspaper files, church registers and courthouse records of towns where ancestors are known to have lived. Examine tombstones in old cemeteries, where poesy and precious data sometimes lurk...
...intercollegiate sports have provided a pattern of development to a recently emerging organization of women's athletics. Hopefully those who will guide this movement will not simply accept the values behind men's athletics without questioning them. Hopefully, in a quest for equality, they will not overload a precious opportunity to find a different, better...
...reported, "but I'm not about to go out into the fields to find out-the air is so black I might get lost." In eastern Colorado, too, gusts of wind up to 90 m.p.h. scooped up the drought-dry topsoil, hurling some five tons of the precious dirt off each acre of land during a 24-hour storm. Observed Rod Johnson, a federal agriculture official: "The eastern three-fourths of Kiowa County is moving...