Word: cherishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is called the new democracy is making its appearance today - it has come to Czechoslovakia - but it is a state of things which in ancient days we used to call slavery. If a halt is not called, then the end of civilization as we know it and cherish it is inevitable...
Like most of the world's wandering peoples, Armenians cherish the dream of home. In Manhattan, last week, 150 of the 150,000 Armenians in the U.S. found the tug of homesickness too strong to resist. They stepped aboard the trim, white Soviet steamship Rossia, sailed for the old country-now a part of the U.S.S.R...
...second World War. There is still no possible numbering of the wounded and the mutilated who survived, or of those who must yet die for lack of the simplest medical facilities, or of so much as a roof over their heads. It is unbearable, and unwise as well, to cherish memory of the bestial atrocities which have been perpetrated by Moslem and Sikh and Hindu alike. It is beyond human competence to conceive, far less to endure the thought of, the massiveness of the mania of rage, the munificence of the anguish, the fecundity of hate breeding hate, perhaps...
Princess Elizabeth, announced Buckingham Palace, would stick by the old wording in the Book of Common Prayer's marriage service. Others might now "cherish," but, future Queen or not, she would promise to "obey" her husband. And the details of the wedding cake were all set. It would be only a four-layer austerity affair, with a few decorative accents (Elizabeth's and Philip's crests, small reproductions of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral; little tableaux; a battle scene at Cape Matapan, some musical emblems, Cupid holding the bride's and groom's initials...
Chinchilla breeders cherish their charges, sometimes pampering them with special food pellets and air-conditioning systems. But the market is risky. It takes about 150 pelts to make one full-length coat. Until pelts fall far below the present price of live chinchillas, furriers are not interested. Manhattan's I. J. Fox made up one coat, which it priced at $25,000. That coat is still unsold, says I. J. Fox: "We got a lot of publicity out of it. You can have it for next to nothing...