Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaven's sake, where oh where did you get that fantastic line about Sir Archibald McIndoe: "Some of his patients call [him] 'God'-and partly mean it" [TIME, Sept. 27]? I have known Sir Archibald since I crashed in flames in 1941, and have been under his chopper 32 times ... I have never heard him spoken of as God ... If your correspondent (may he be hoist by his own typewriter) had said that Sir Archie was known to the boys as "The Boss," "Maestro," "Mac," or merely "The Big White Chief," then he would have been guilty...
...soon as enemy were reported near. Washington hanged two deserters who had been sentenced to death by shooting and wrote to the Governor: "Your Honor will, I hope, excuse my hanging instead of shooting them. It conveyed much more terror to others; and it was for example sake...
...young Edward's sake, Arnold Holt commits arson, practices blackmail, ditches his mistress, makes a wreck of his wife, blarneys the girl Edward has got with child. Edward himself, not much good to begin with and monstrously spoiled, turns into a wastrel who is killed...
Julia Misbehaves (M-G-M). During the amatory hurly-burly of World War I, Julia (Greer Garson), a hoy-de-hoyden of London's music halls, marries a landed gent (Walter Pidgeon). They break up before long and, for their child's sake, Julia nobly awards the father 100% custody. The years go by, and Julia, now a middle-aging tramp, gets an invitation to her daughter's posh wedding...
...Cambridge fire chief denies this is the reason. Fire engines can pass through all streets where legal parking space is used, at any time--day or night. If they couldn't of course, then city officials would be hazarding the lives and property of their citizens for the sake of the small change from parking meters. Snow removal in the winter requires streets to be clear. Yet the parking ban extends to such off-thoroughfare areas as the triangle just above the Square, and the spaces in front of Claverly...