Word: preciously
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...ratio plan has diffused student discontent to a point where vocal students only experience futility when they speak out. their professors. The quality of their education has declined with over-crowded classrooms and labs, seminars with 22 people all trying to speak their few precious words, professors whose time only goes so far, and individuals becoming lost in larger and larger clean discussions...
...Lotte Goslar's New York-based Pantomime Circus demonstrates a rare and precious conceit: dance can be funny as well as fashionable. One of the best of American mimes, Goslar is a dumpling of a woman with a turned-up nose and a turned-down figure that often resembles a lightly squeezed tube of toothpaste. Gnome is where her heart is, especially when spoofing flowers, inch-worms and swishy ballet masters, or imitating a katydid rubbing its legs (Splendor in the Grass). When four of her dancers somehow managed to portray a cowardly lion encountering an equally cowardly clown...
...laugh would sound. It's hard to laugh at hell, even at a hell like this one. And through the precise, deliberate prose of this sixty-page "story" you can feel Samuel Beckett sternly watching, eyes glaring from the thin face beneath its defiant gray crest, offering precious little refuge for that laugh...
...after its 698th pass around the planet, Mariner's mission has finally come to an end. Because the precious supply of attitude-controlling nitrogen gas has been exhausted, the spacecraft can no longer point its antenna toward earth for radio transmissions back to Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As a result, Mariner's final 15 pictures remained locked on board. But scientists are hardly disappointed. Exceeding its expected working life of 90 days by eight months, Mariner yielded a total of 7,329 photographs, covering the entire surface of Mars as well as its tiny moonlets, Phobos...
...still hope that the Dow will quickly pierce the magic 1,000 mark once a Viet Nam cease-fire is actually signed. In fact, though, worried frowns are prevalent among officers of many of the 3,740 U.S. stock-brokerage firms. They have made money for many clients, but precious little for themselves...