Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberals, who governed Canada for 22 years until last June, prepared to blame the Tories for Canada's business slowdown and rising unemployment and to accuse them of mishandling relations with the U.S. Neither major party is remotely anti-U.S., but the Tories traditionally cherish stonger ties to Britain; soon after taking office, Diefenbaker called on. Canadians to transfer 15% of their U.S. purchases to British suppliers...
This cynical couplet from Shakespeare's As You Like It would shock the traditionalists of Japan, who cherish in song and story the tales of true lovers pledged in death. Last year 3,000 Japanese girls between the ages of 15 and 24 killed themselves, and 1,000 of these died in suicide pacts with their lovers. Last week Japan was sentimentally creating a new legend about a new pair of star-crossed lovers...
...Little Rock, Ark., bludgeoning innocent bystanders, with bayonets in the backs of schoolgirls, and the warm, red blood of patriotic American citizens staining the cold, naked, unsheathed knives. In the name of God, whom we all revere, in the name of liberty we hold so dear, which we all cherish, what is happening in America...
...emotional issue of foreign relations, subtle differences mark the party attitudes. Liberals cherish the British Commonwealth as a purely sentimental unifying influence. John Diefenbaker (though he is the first Tory Prime Minister with a non-British name) loves Britain-and sees it as a useful lever to help Canada resist U.S. domination. In London for a Commonwealth Conference soon after his election, Diefenbaker invited his fellow Prime Ministers to send their finance ministers to Ottawa this fall to talk up Commonwealth trade. And back in Ottawa, he called on Canadians to shift 15% of their U.S. purchase orders to British...
...recent despairing warning of that old internationalist Gilbert Murray, in the last days of his life, that the colored races are not ready for leadership of the world but are inheriting it by default, Harold Macmillan was plainly suggesting that empire-minded Tories, to preserve the values they cherish, should become good Europeans...