Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joined the Canadian forces during the war, how 26,000 men of Canadian birth had served with the U.S. forces, how they trained in each other's schools. Cheers shook the windows as he made an eloquent, earnest plea for cooperation to keep the peace for the sake of "white crosses, standing in regimented clusters throughout a thousand leagues of foreign soil...
Klee, wanting to paint like children, knew that children paint not to make beautiful pictures, but simply for the fun of picturing what they feel-art-for-my-sake. For grownups who have little childhood left in them, Klee's work, like children's, is something pretty hard to understand...
...Jerseyite: "Any power can get ideas of world domination. For the sake of our own security, we shouldn't tell the other countries about the bomb, even though they can find out for themselves. We aren't too sure we can have peace. Things are too chaotic. . . . There are still places that are foreign to our way of life and may cause trouble. Which country? It's hard to say; I don't want to be specific...
...this way: "When I found out it was Hindemith's 50th birthday I said, 'Let's bring the guy here and cut up the cake out here.' I knew it wouldn't mean any cake at the box office but for heaven's sake he's one of the world's foremost musicians, and unless someone takes an interest in what he's doing the public will never know his work. What are we going to do, wait until his 150th anniversary to do a program...
Here, in capsule, was the implacable Left. Much of Laski's audience belonged to the placable Left-New Dealers who preached a muddled "middle way" for its own sake, without much effort to formulate principles. Yet they cheered Laski, the absolutist, who sufficiently relaxed his absolutism to make a deep bow to a compromiser, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as the "supreme friend of democracy and freedom...