The Bay Boys have been protecting their precious surf break since at least the 60s, by way of intimidation, threats, and even beatings.
"Here, what should be hard is soft, what should be brittle is flexible, what should be fragile is fleshy, what should be precious is broken," she writes.
A lost chance for a precious second service break often causes a subtle change in the emotional climate of a match.
David Bowie broke precious ground in the 1970s but it has taken time for the use of androgyny as a tool to shock to be replaced by a desire to present gender fluidity as something rather more run-of-the-mill.
Sometimes simply being offered food, water or a precious 10-minute break has made me feel more valued, appreciated and a part of a team, than hearing unending praise from the bosses.
"It seeks to drive us apart and to break the precious bonds of solidarity and citizenship that we share in this country," she said.
It has left it divided between two leaders who, for very different reasons, have precious little chance of breaking into mainstream politics.Enoch Powell, a British politician to whom Mr Keyes bears a remarkable resemblance, once observed that "all political careers end in failure".
Whatever its specifics, the case is emblematic of a larger and oft-lamented truth attending the endless tide of consumer electronics coursing through the American waste stream — and one that works in favor, at least for the moment, of American brokers like Mr. Nixon: There really are precious few rules to break.
You could suggest that one of the high-points was the half-time break, those precious minutes when England weren't coursing them around Celtic Park.
It seems almost superstitious like he's afraid of breaking something precious by getting too close.
