Word: sake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patients carry matches and lighters, wear wristwatches. Only rings of exceptional value are locked up for safety's sake. Women use knives freely when cooking in individual ward kitchens, are allowed scissors for sewing. They use electric washing machines, dryers and irons. Men shave themselves in the ward barber shop (though attendants change blades in safety razors), and have full access to cutting and gouging tools in the craft shop. If anything, says Dr. Snow, there are fewer accidents and fewer suicide attempts nowadays...
...insisted, was no fake. According to Mitterrand's new version, Pesquet had appeared one afternoon with the story that he had been assigned by a rightist underground organization to murder Mitterrand, but did not have the heart to do it; instead, Pesquet proposed that "for safety's sake" Mitterrand start using the roundabout route home that he had followed on the night of the shooting. "I am the victim of a classic provocation," cried Mitterrand. "Either I was killed and couldn't talk, or I escaped them and fell into these machinations...
John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, was not convicted that many students would agree to pay as much as $150 more per year "for the sake of having one less roommate...
...south of the border on March 8, 1916 during the expedition against Pancho Villa. Mild, middle-aged Hero Cooper is a major in the U.S. Cavalry who at his first brush with the enemy "yellows out" and hides in a ditch while his men fight and die. For the sake of Cooper's father, a famous name in the Cavalry, the C.O. conceals the son's disgrace, assigns him to special duty as an awards officer. The coward, by a truly profound stroke of irony, is set up as the judge of what courage...
...combat helmet and a British officer's short jacket and moodily marching about with his poodles (names: Hedda and Louella) and his vast television dreams. Occasionally, his reverie may be shattered by a cry from his third wife,* blonde Musicomedienne Vivienne (Pal Joey) Segal: "For heaven's sake, Hub, take off that damn helmet...