Word: preciously
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...Nonobjective painting is a kind of cultism. It's one of those precious, pansy arts above the public comprehension. Every decadent society has produced these esoteric art forms which give the snobs a chance to demonstrate their superiority. The sooner Mr. Rockefeller tears down that Museum of Modern Art of his with all its nonobjective paintings, the better off American art will be. The only ones who hang around that museum are a bunch of softies who don't know how to drink or do anything...
...years, Army & Navy airmen had feared an attack by economy-minded Congressmen on their most precious perquisite-flying pay. For flying more than four hours a month they get 50% added to their pay. The attack had not come during wartime, when combat conditions tend to equalize the hazards of the infantrymen and the aviator, but it came in Congress last week in the brave new light of peace...
...food is precious. Housing is short. Shanghai's 200,000 Jewish refugees are still in the Hongkew quarter and a few have to live in refugee camps. Of all Shanghailanders, Jews face the most uncertain future. They dream of America in the same way as devout Americans dream of paradise...
...Latin America. The U.S. officially, and Braden personally, propose to uphold the U.S. idea of liberty in all the Western Hemisphere. Yet the U.S., as the greatest of western nations, and Braden as its servant, must recognize that sovereignty-especially sovereignty below the Rio Grande-is sometimes more precious than liberty...
Prince Jorn bravely attacked a terrible knight in black armor, who turned out to be an invalid gaffer, dressed up. Then he gathered the one thousand precious cherries he had picked from the orchard of the fearful Mok-Mok, who was stuffed, and had birds' nests in his eyes...