Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ethnologists cherish the Motilones as an unexploited treasure. They are one of the few remaining Indian groups in South America untouched by the white man's influence. Airplanes fly over their country and photograph their clearings, but that is about as close as anyone gets to the Motilones. Attempts to conciliate them, or even to talk with them, are met with flights of arrows out of the jungle. Their customs, language and religion remain a mystery. Presumably they have not changed since pre-Spanish times...
...Conant 'has directed a great university to some of its most notable triumphs, has made the crucial decision to build the atomic bomb, and has become the most incisive defender of liberal education in the United States today. Inevitably he has also become the sort of public figures editors cherish for making news no matter what he speaks on. Conant is a familiar figure to periodical readers; to devotes of "Scientific American" he is known as a top-notch organic chemist, to the faithful of the "Boston Pilot" he appears as the arch-enemy of the parochial school system...
...Freshmen cherish every chance they get to exercise their democratic rights. To describe the Smoker Committee election (or for that matter any undergraduate election) as a "democratic dabble" is cheap and a slight on our democratic heritage. It is also ridiculous. The members of the Committee are--perhaps contrary to CRIMSON knowledge--hard-working. Two members are at present in New York trying to line up entertainment. The CRIMSON can hardly say that these students are democratic dabblers...
...McCarran Act," continued the letter, "which condemns to detention camps citizens whose only crime is that of being 'probable' saboteurs, is repugnant to all citizens who cherish democracy...
...married. They flew to Las Vegas, arriving at 3 in the morning, roused out a justice of the peace, and did so. At one point Marion, who knew the words, raced ahead of the justice and said, "Love, honor and obey . . ." Said the justice: "In Nevada you say cherish . . ." Marion agreed, being in Nevada...