Word: cherishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through, General Wedemeyer gave straight answers, kept his all-but-saintly patience-until a Chinese asked a question I shall always cherish as a supreme example of jerkery: "Do you have any jeeps for sale?" Wedemeyer winced as though struck across the face with a dead carp. He snapped through clenched teeth: "I'm not a sales agent for anything!" Then he recovered, earnestly explained how surplus property is sold...
...over & over. In each of his novels he punished his father three times. He killed him before the story opened by making the hero an orphan; he gave Horatio Sr.'s worst traits to the villainous squire; and finally he provided the hero with a new father to cherish...
...world-heard shot was fired in 1775, citizens had raised a banner: "WELCOME GEORGE BLOOD 'N' GUTS PATTON. NICE GOING!" At Cambridge City Hall the car drove beneath arched Fire-Department ladders. Handed a gavel .made from the Washington Elm, Georgie Patton promised, "I'll cherish it forever...
...oars, cork floats, shells, broken pilings, sandpiper decoys, fishnets and other briny flotsam & jetsam. His new show at the Downtown Gallery-ten sea-dominated landscapes and four portraits-is probably a fairly proportioned cross section of the artist's enthusiasms. Says he: "As a secondary interest, I cherish the human physiognomy...
World Wars I & II had been the greatest upsetters of thrones in history. But while Otto of Austria, Peter of Yugoslavia, George of Greece might hope (however mistakenly) one day to resume their royal careers, the Hohenzollerns could scarcely even cherish illusions. As a ruling dynasty they seemed to be as safely mummified as Egypt's XXII Dynasty...