Word: sake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moon has the essential gift of the novelist-to let his characters live their own lives-but he sacrifices too much of it for the sake of his propaganda point. This apparently had less weight than the book's solid merits with Doubleday & Co., which has been awarding the George Washington Carver prize since 1945, for "outstanding writing by or about American Negroes." The current award has gone to Bucklin Moon...
...address is now out of the question and communications like the following have been coming to us: "Unfortunately, the Communists are approaching my native city (Wuchang), and an iron curtain will soon be tightly drawn between us and the West. American publications, especially, will be prohibited . . . For the sake of my safety, please stop corresponding with your humble reader...
Haggling. Meanwhile, Republican Robert Taft had moved in. Teaming up with rebellious Democrat Dick Russell of Georgia, he wanted to cut the ECA 10% for economy's sake only. "I do not believe the scale on which we are spending money can be economically justified," said Taft. "If we are not willing to cut ECA ... we cannot cut any other expense...
Defense counsel had its own habit, too. Its members missed no pettifogging chance for objection, argument, delay. By such tactics they had held off the actual start of the trial for ten weeks. Now that it had been begun, delay for confusion's sake was still one of their favorite legal weapons...
...these ten years I have come to realize as never before how much praise man is just simply bound to give to God his Maker. This I hold a gain for the sake of which I willingly put in second place the wistful desire to be younger, though I cannot suppress that desire...