Word: cherishing
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...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...
...painting. The artist's delight was in the spacious landscape, towering Alban hills, the pleasant villa under blue skies and the rich glitter of jewels and armor. The painting keys perfectly to Poussin's own view of himself: "My natural disposition forces me to seek and cherish orderly things, avoiding confusion which is as contrary to my nature as is light to obscure gloom...
...palpably clear in moral terms. Beck remained silent to guard his neck; Peck risked his neck to prevent capricious injury to other persons. Although the irony of the distinction may elude the Senate and the courts, it is surely one that the press-and the public-ought to cherish and defend...
...there were no deaths, and no really serious injuries (a woman dropped a coffeepot on her toe; a man broke his foot running downstairs at City Hall). There was some hysteria as the city went through a whole series of shocks (including the minor aftershocks), but San Franciscans-who cherish their earthquakes as they do their cable cars-generally took the day in stride. Perhaps the most characteristic act was that of the gift-shop owner who stood quietly with the customers during the worst shock, and then poured a drink of bourbon all around in cups of jade...