Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear more classical and middle Romantic music; give us some Debussy, some of the modern French impressionists, possibly Honegger and Milhaud. But cease pounding at the late Romantics, for the sake of balance and because they do not deserve...
...Bank of America, was attending a board meeting. As Senior Vice Chairman Francis Shaw Baer droned through figures describing the bank's condition, old "A.P." fidgeted like a school boy with two fingers raised. Suddenly he jumped up, pounded the table and roared: "For God's sake, Franny, give 'em the big news...
...esthetic followers of "art for art's sake," Henley's boisterous, often crude vitality seemed both stupid and frightening. Esthete Aubrey Beardsley was so terrified by his first glimpse of the "pirate" that he turned and ran for his life. Arch-esthete Oscar Wilde was made of sterner stuff. In a scathing review of Henley's hospital poems (whose occasional beauties, said Oscar, were "very refreshing [bits] of affectation in a volume where there is so much that is natural"), he opened a running fight with Henley that lasted nearly 20 years. The fight ended indecisively...
More than at any former conference of World War II and its unpeaceful peace, the negotiators struck attitudes and took extreme positions for the sheer sake of bargaining. Quibbling over details had vastly increased. Molotov won no friends by arguing for an hour and 40 minutes over the wording of a conference communiqué, later issuing his own statement...
...purely economic argument offered more room for hope. The British negotiators seemed unexpectedly willing to fore-sake Empire preference and other trade restrictions and chance a return to relatively free world markets-if they could get a loan on sufficiently generous terms...