Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evident that this question should be rephrased as. How can they make themselves into first-class citizens?" Now any serious student of American racist patterns and Afro-American life could tell Mansfield that Blacks have never lacked the will--yes, that rugged individualistic will that New Right analysts cherish so much--or the institutional knowledge required to become citizens at parity with American citizenship standards, and it is insulting and just plain ignorant of Mansfield to suggest otherwise What Black Americans have tacked in their tortuous citizenship quest is the freedom to pursue it--freedom from vulgar and degrading racist...
Americans tend to cherish the idea that a presidential campaign should be a dramatic examination of the nation's values and goals. Some such differentiation did occur, especially at the two conventions. In San Francisco, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson elaborated the Mondale theme of Democratic inclusiveness and Government as the agent of progress. In Dallas, the Republicans ridiculed that as a negative, weakling vision. To them, the private sector is America's genius...
Together with their language and literature, the Sikhs cherish their religious customs and institutions. A newcomer is initiated by being anointed with sweet water that has been stirred in an iron bowl with a double-edged dagger. Sikhs pray together on equal footing in gurdwaras, or temples, through which reverberate chanted verses from the sacred book known as the Granth Sahib. The holiest of holies is the Golden Temple at Amritsar, some 250 miles northwest of Delhi, the shrine that was stormed by government troops five months ago. Rejecting all idols as false, the Sikh (the name means disciple) draws...
Southern Californians cherish a style unlike anything elsewhere. One Hollywood hostess, Stacey Winkler, 36, wife of Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler, is noted for her elaborate invitations. She summoned guests to a Halloween party, for example, by writing messages on the sides of pumpkins, wrapping the pumpkins in ribbons, and having them delivered by a chauffeur in a ghost costume. She was dismayed, on the other hand, when a hired bartender arrived in a tuxedo; she immediately sent him home to change into Bermuda shorts. "No one who knows us," she says proudly, "would wear...
...cherish my friendship with Jesse, and I need his honesty and his outspoken patriotism back in the United States Senate. Next year, more than ever, I'm going to need the advice and the experience of Jesse Helms to keep America moving," the President says...