Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...achieve this for her wander through a section of their mutually depraved lives, the reader does not know if he has read a parody or a psychological study. If parody, it is not clearly such, and if psychological, it is pompous, muddled, and shocking just for the sake of being shocking...
Marshall warned grimly: "Unless we can have ... a real desire to carry out both the spirit and the letter of our agreements, it were better none were reached. . . . We should not seek agreement merely for the sake of agreement. The U.S. recognizes that its responsibilities in Europe will continue and it is more concerned in building solidly than in building fast...
...turned out to be a drenching, misty Saturday-but the British are used to soggy race tracks and that sort of jolly boating weather. Of the 40 million men, women & children in England, over two million spent the afternoon getting wet for sport's sake...
Emerson, in his day, had been a radical. Mr. Apley is never "late" in the biographical sense; the movie ads explain that he is slow to learn that he must not ruin his children's future for the sake of the past, but learns "better late than never...
Another protracted duel is fought over Mr. Tracy's unhappy wife (Katharine Hepburn). At a meeting in Denver-so discreetly handled, for the censors' sake, that it all seems to have been managed by pollination-Mr. Douglas gets Miss Hepburn with child. After the child grows up to be Robert Walker and has paid the inevitable price for his mother's sin (i.e., he gets killed off), the picture is quickly put out of its misery...