Word: cherishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much discussed "peace dividend" will probably translate into military layoffs, equipment cuts, withdrawal from foreign posts and general retrenchment in prestige. The Tailhook scandals of sexual harassment have toppled high-ranking Navy officers and exposed to public scorn a kind of sexism that many in the military still cherish as "virility" and "blowing off steam." The one great victory of recent years, Desert Storm, was so quick and total that it scarcely tested the mettle of troops, and the persistence of Saddam Hussein makes the triumph appear almost hollow...
...believe that any American President, once he is objectively acquainted with the situation in the Middle East and aware of American interests, will work for peace. The degree of enthusiasm varies, but we expect that Clinton will be supportive. We cherish the efforts of President Bush and Secretary of State Baker, even though the American election intervened and prevented their fruition. If President-elect Clinton is as enthusiastic as they were, he will receive the appreciation of the people of this region. If he is not so enthusiastic, which we think is highly improbable, then everything will come...
...filmmaker of genius. And yet you have to cherish, like a guilty conscience, any writer-director who can outrage so many people with a melodrama set in the ghetto tinderbox (Do the Right Thing), a musical about skin-tone prejudice among blacks (School Daze), an interracial love and lust story (Jungle Fever...
...Jewish tradition [produces] a close society, but also celebrates the values we moderns cherish," he said...
...meets that challenge. Its loser-heroes could be two of today's homeless horde searching for work, for value, for someone -- anyone -- who might find value in them. In Horton Foote's scrupulous new adaptation, John Malkovich is lumbering Lennie, whose frustrated tenderness crushes the things he would cherish; Gary Sinise is George, Lennie's protective pal; Sherilyn Fenn is the lonely wife held hostage by capricious fate. The credibility of their playing breaks through the familiar sanctity of a "classic" revival. Sinise also directs, in a muted style sensitive both to the palette of a waning California autumn...