Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President had to scare Congress to make them take the momentous step he was asking them to take. But once that result is achieved, for God's sake stop talking about checking Russia, and talk about rehabilitating Greece and giving every Greek a fair chance. If you don't do this, every loafer and crook in Greece will consider himself the ally of the American General Staff-to be fed and kept in style by. the American taxpayer. . . . See to it that the money is used for the reconstruction of [Greece] and does not get into the hands...
...long been Harvard's crying need, a literary magazine of interest not only to the self-styled aesthete, but to anyone around who likes to read. Experimentation has not been dispensed with, neither in the poetry nor the prose, but it isn't used merely for its own sake. The material runs from psychological fiction to light fantasy to an article on the AVC, and altogether it's pretty good...
...trifle forced, is sustained right through this delightful little piece of writing. "The Javelin-Thrower," by H. Lawrence Osgood, is below the standards of the rest of the magazine. Its "meaning" is abstruse and not worth troubling about, and the story was hardly worth printing either for the sake of quality or variety...
Marshall advised in his detailed report his first major address since he became secretary of State in January-that "We must not compromise on great principles in order to achieve agreement for agreement's sake...
...telephone operator flashed neighboring Houston: "For God's sake, send the Red Cross. ..." A dazed young woman walked the streets with a dead child in her arms. Stunned people walked into the sides of buildings and cars, and on the waterfront, those heroic people who always turn up when men are dying died themselves while following cries from under the flaming wreckage. Trucks loaded with dead rumbled by and sound trucks bellowed warnings through the streets...