Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something happy will happen today, Something to cherish at close of day, Some tenderness in unexpected faces, Some atomic thing to feather my spirit's wing...
...These British!" Despite Harold Macmillan's insistence-a correct one-that he had been one of the few British politicians to oppose the Munich deal with Hitler and was not advocating appeasement now, most of Britain's partners continued to cherish a surprisingly strong suspicion that Britain is "wobbly" over Berlin. There were shrugging Italian references to "perfidious Albion," and open questioning in France and Germany of Britain's staunchness. Charles de Gaulle flatly declared that disengagement would be disastrous unless it involved "a zone that is as near to the Urals as to the Atlantic. Otherwise...
Timely Blushes. Devoted Janeites cherish even the unfinished fragments of Jane Austen's novels. Chief of these is The Watsons-six chapters of a novel that she began around 1803 and then (for no known reason) abandoned. Published for the first time in 1871, The Watsons was twice snatched up in the 19205 by authors (one of them Jane Austen's great-grandniece) who tried to complete it in a faithfully Janeish style. Now Novelist Coates has taken another stab at the job. What Coates had to start with was a typically Austenish setup: a poor widower with...
...board, so to speak. The purists argue that pictures held like stocks in a bank vault do no one any good. They insist they would rather hold such pictures for the public-which is to say, for the museums-or, failing that, for private collectors who will at least cherish them...
...line of fire while they sent forth their male secretaries to bop one another with chairs and lunch boxes. Socialists, stirring up the ruckus inside the Diet and labor leaders calling a general strike outside it, were, said Kishi, threatening the parliamentary democracy "which you claim to cherish." But they were not the only opponents of the bill. Throughout Japan last week, responsible men and women with vivid memories of the days when the police could arrest and torture as part of the government's thought-control policy began to speak out. Among them were 1,500 Presbyterian churches...