The five stripes displayed on his arm denote a high rank in Young Pioneers - to have three is rare.

S. A are a must. But TVs and fashionable clothes aren't rare anymore, and anything 'Made in China' won't do.

He was, in other words, one of those rare beings, as likeable as he was impressive.

People who can make ideas work are rare as hen's teeth.

Nevertheless these rare and wonderful objects, as they were to us boys, served to tinge with an additional attraction the lure of the inner apartments.