Word: cherish
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...Rally to us," said the Marshal, "the hesitating and the discontented, who, in their incomprehension of our disaster and its consequences, continue to cherish the illusions of the past. You will impose silence on their criticisms, sly or tumultuous...
Downstairs, rapt scullery maids devour its spicy morsels; so, upstairs, does many a lady of the house. Farmers, laborers and millworkers cherish its sinful revelations; so also do royalty, Cabinet ministers, tycoons. Without News of the World, Sunday morning in Britain would lack something as familiar as church bells...
...does Mr. Cole (TIME, Jan. 27) think criminals do not cherish their liberty? . . . If I were allowed to enlist in the U. S. Navy, I'm sure the lesson I have learned would greatly benefit those whom Professor John B. Waite [who deplored the exclusion of criminals from Selective Service training-TIME, Dec. 30] speaks of. Yes, I know CRIME DOES...
...leave them alone. There are others who are ardent pacifists and object to the use of force even for the purpose of defending civilization against barbarism. We of the Harvard Group are convinced that these men are grievously mistaken in thinking that the freedom which they and we cherish can be preserved except by strengthening our own armed forces and by giving all possible aid to those nations who are defending our democracy by defending their own. But the fact that these academic colleagues of ours are seeking to maintain American freedom by travelling what we believe...
Foreign Affairs. "America, as always, prefers peace. But America does not prefer the peace of appeasement, not the surrender of our national dignity, our independence of action, our political freedom or the civilized values that we cherish...