Word: cherishing
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Every presidency develops its own trappings of status. Under Richard Nixon, the favored few who travel on Air Force One cherish their blue, Air Force special issue flight jackets emblazoned with the presidential seal and personal silver-and-black name tags. All the President's top aides-Henry Kissinger, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman-wear them aboard. Even Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, suits...
Clark argues that excessively harsh anticrime tactics are doomed to long-term failure in the U.S. Though they often pay it mere lip service, Clark admits, Americans still cherish the ideal of equal justice for all citizens. Thev seem unlikely to accept the kind of force that would stamp out all crime-and freedom as well. Such force, he adds, can only incite more anger and violence...
...countries cherish the good opinion of mankind. Russia is no exception. That is why the recent award of the Nobel Prize to Alexander Solzhenitsyn is as great a public embarrassment as Soviet leaders have felt since the awarding of the prize to Boris Pasternak in 1958. More tellingly than Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn bears witness to human degradation in the Soviet Union of the Stalin era. The world premiere of A Play by Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater reveals the novelist to be a dramatist of feral power...
Behind the recommendations lay the belief that enforcement of antismut laws is impossible, time-wasting, and a "threat to the free communication of ideas among Americans." Only a minority of Americans, said the commission members, favor censorship; a majority cherish the right to decide individually what books to read and what films...
...side, a silent reminder that last year he divorced his first wife Alta after 37 years of marriage. The embittered Alta, 57, at first threatened to enter the race against him, but confined herself to warning voters not to trust his campaign promises because "he promised to love, cherish and obey when he married me, and he broke that vow." The divorce settlement gave Alta the family string of weekly newspapers. He kept their $200,000 mansion in Huntsville, complete with a $100,000 mortgage. It has been vacated by Faubus, who moved to Harrison as general manager of Dogpatch...