Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slavery." As an undoubted authority, Stalin linked Churchill with dictatorship. The war, he rumbled, had not been fought "for the sake of exchanging the lordship of Hitler for the lordship of Churchill. He conjured up a dire future for those who (like himself) could not speak English: Churchill, with his "racial theory" that "only nations speaking the English language are . . . called upon to decide the destinies of the entire world" (a very free Russian interpretation of Churchill), was as bad as Hitler with his theories of German supremacy. ". . . Nations not speaking English," Stalin discovered, "make up an enormous majority...
...Chinese recognized Marshall's sincerity. In his own country and in a day of great military peril he had not hesitated to make similar sacrifices of "military efficiency" for the sake of democratic control. Not long after Pearl Harbor his staff had proposed far more rigid press controls. Marshall told them...
...square State Capitol of Virginia he paused before a statue of Washington, then went in and addressed the joint Assembly, eloquently emphasizing what he had said in Fulton, paying homage to Virginia's history, slipping up on the middle initial of Robert E. Lee but remembering for the sake of his Southern hosts to change his prepared text from "the great American Civil War" to "the great war of the American States." The Virginians cheered...
...electrical workers "have been so misled that they are flatly defying our courts and all constituted authority. . . . Constituted Government has only one answer to that. We've tried to tell this to the C.I.O. leaders. No go. Maybe they will listen to you. We hope so. For the sake of the C.I.O., and the future of the labor movement in America...
...silence the assembly listened as a Heidelberg professor, Nazi Ernst Krieck, shouted: "We do not recognize or know truth for truth's sake or science for science's sake." Some recalled a letter which had once beckoned Spinoza to his chair at Heidelberg, it read: "You will have the utmost freedom of philosophizing...