Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adults and offspring learn to respect and cherish their neighbors, who may live only four feet away. In emergencies-a ruptured water line, a balky motor, a hidden leak, suspicious intruders-boat owners of necessity lean on one another. There are no class distinctions or keeping-up-with-yawl in a marina. Says Manhattan-based Les Torgensen, 45, a writer and boat dealer who ran away to sea when he was 15: "The beauty of boat dwelling here is that we've got small-town living in the heart of a big city...
...Cherish public credit . . . use it as sparingly as possible . . . By vigorous exertion . . . discharge debts . . . not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden we ourselves ought to bear...
When it came to annihilating bromides, Plomer was a vigilante. He continually hunted worn phrases, particularly the ones found in obituaries: "infectious laughter," "selfless devotion," "indomitable courage." As to the deceased who possessed "an immense affection for all animals," a question nagged: "Did he cherish warthogs and dote on hyenas, did he take the skunk to his bosom?" Plomer's acerbic critiques did not stop at the mirror. For his own epitaph he furnished a shrewd, unblinking self-estimate...
...75th anniversary of the first Teddy bear, named after Alice's father, Teddy Roosevelt. "It has a great big fat swollen face, with a little mouth on the edge. It's just waiting to be loved," shrugged the tart-tongued Princess Alice. "I'm supposed to cherish it. I guess," added Longworth, now 94, who stopped collecting Teddy bears long...
...down the leg to the foot, as in the well-known 18th-century Malvolio painting by Ramberg. In the Prison Scene it is poor staging that allows us to see only Malvolio's hands sticking through a basement window. Still, Rabb's is a portrayal to cherish, right up to the series of glares he aims at one person after another when, unenlightened, he voices a final threat and departs...