Word: cherishes
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...keeps the glass menagerie, a little collection of glass animals, an escape from her cloistered existence. This is a difficult role and Jane Wyman acts it just about perfectly. Apparently the glass figurines also serve as Williams' symbol of the fictional escape all the characters cherish...
...alone, O Lord, doth reign / in Sion Thine own hill . . ."). Then Whitney Griswold, wearing around his neck the "president's collar" of 20 gold & silver links and a pendant medallion with the arms of Elihu Yale, received the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university "to cherish and defend." Finally, in the tradition of his predecessors, he stepped to the lectern to declare his credo...
...higher education in special fields . . . Thus they both deepened and broadened the higher learning." In a free society, the deepening and broadening cannot stop, no matter what the times. "These are the things Yale lives and works for, in war and peace," said President Griswold. "They are things to cherish and defend in times of war; to fight for, when there is fighting; and to return to when the fighting is over...
...rising vote they passed a "midcentury manifesto." "At no time in the history of Christianity has there been greater danger of losing sight of the principles and ideals for which it exists. The danger is increased by the fact that liberty is being denied by those who profess to cherish it. Violation of conscience arises not merely in communistic territories, but sometimes even within the churches themselves. Not only do Communists imprison Roman Catholics and Protestants; Roman Catholics are ready to persecute Protestants, and certain Protestants, to a lesser degree, deny Roman Catholics and others full liberty...
...high time that we stopped thinking politically as Republicans and Democrats about elections and started thinking patriotically as Americans ... It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques-techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life...