Word: preciously
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Early one morning last week, Farmer Frederick Henry Dennis, 34, looked out over his 1,000-acre farm at Poslingford Hall, Suffolk. He saw a strange young man drive a big caterpillar tractor into a 20-acre field of ripe buckwheat and calmly begin to plow in the precious crop. Dennis ran towards him, cursing and shouting...
...saturated in a kind of allegorized romanticism that is curiously musty. There are moments when the film almost achieves what it works so hard for-the enchantment of the audience. But enchantment is closely related to sleep; all in all, sleep is what this exquisitely contrived but rather precious film is likelier to induce...
Described as "America's most precious lunatic" by ordinarily venomous critics, Perelman occupies his own peculiar niche among top-ranking humorists. His biting, savoury style, bolstered by an endless supply of weird adjectives, signals a rocking belly laugh among even the most profound readers. For this adulation Perelman depends upon a speedy change of pace in the sequence of stories, the ridiculous image, and a willingness to play the fool for the benefit of his audience...
...give the Labor Government control of the coal miners who could make or break Britain. Last week, at the peak of the wildcat coal strike that started at Grimethorpe in Yorkshire, 70,000 miners were out of the pits. Already the strike had cost Britain 400,000 tons of precious coal. When the National Coal Board asked Grimethorpe miners to increase their daily stint (from digging 21 feet of coal daily to 23 feet) the strike began...
...vast (105,000-seat) Coliseum as a big-league park. But he has neglected to point out that the right-field seats would be only 290 feet away from the plate, and balls hit to left field would have to be mailed in. Also, parking space is precious, some lots charging up to $5 a car. And concessions in the Coliseum, without which no club could exist, are already leased...