Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written him notes begging him to straighten up, get out of town, get lost in the river. But George was utterly willful, and he was a little cracked too. Witness the note he scribbled in lipstick on Miss Brown's bathroom wall: "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more." He wrote that in Bill's hand, like an expert forger...
...Jesus," says Dr. Scott, ". . . religion was no mere shell, enclosing an ethic, which was the kernel. He thought of morality as growing out of religion, and existing for the sake of it. The idea that you may discard the religion of Jesus and still retain his pure morality is utterly mistaken, for without the religion you have nothing...
Says Dr. Deutsch, who has borne one son: "The woman wants to fight the birth pains largely with her own resources, and is ready to accept a certain amount of pain for the sake of the fullness of her experience. ... A moderate amount of masochism is normal and aids in toleration of the pain...
...arguments for keeping Trieste out of Yugoslav hands were good ones, and Secretary Byrnes and Foreign Secretary Bevin had made them. For the sake of getting on with the peace, they had compromised with Molotov on a French proposal to internationalize the city (which has a preponderantly Italian population, but is economically an outlet for Central Europe and the Balkans). Italian nationalist extremists, who cheered the 1940 attack on France with the land-greedy slogan "Corsica, Nice, Savoy," would scarcely improve their claims to Trieste by demonstrations against the West...
...Stanford's Albert Léon Guérard, 65, professor of literature, transplanted Frenchman, prolific critic and author (Art for Art's Sake, Preface to World Literature, France, a Short History, some 14 other volumes); and Thomas Addis, 64, Scotland-born authority on Bright's disease and other kidney ailments, winner of the Scottish Cullen Prize "for the greatest benefit done to practical medicine in the past four years...