Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sake," he implored, "what's happening to me?" His guards stared at him sheepishly. An hour later he was led back into the bright lights, listened to Vera Walush saying, brokenly, "Yes. Yes, that's the man." Vera did not look...
...ration points. Beef was sometimes obtainable until the end of last year. Since then people have been eating dog and horse meat. Fish has been almost non-existent since last fall. Chickens and eggs are only for children, expectant mothers and hospital patients. There has been no beer or sake since last February...
...turns his dreams into capital evidence. The picture is not strong on suspense, but as straight drama much of it is alive, simple and likable, because everyone concerned is engaged not only in telling the story but also in the relationships and emotions of the characters for their own sake...
...Autobiography so shamelessly coarse as the current novels by young Thomas Hardy (whose fictional county of "Wessex" was slowly replacing Trollope's "Barsetshire"), nothing so sensual and pagan as the lyrics of up-&-coming Poet Oscar Wilde, nothing so effete as the art-for-art's-sake of Oxford's esthetic Walter Pater...
...young officers' revolt, sake-swilling Okada saved his life by attending his own funeral. His brother-in-law, murdered by mistake, was buried as Okada, and assassins stopped looking for the Premier. Okada politely thanked all who sent condolences, resigned as Premier, returned to his sake and his chrysanthemums...