Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Government has long urged the dozens of native potentates under its rule to unite for the sake of greater prosperity. Now the first voluntary union of two African rulers has taken place...
...answers to the question: "What is wrong with the Christian church today?" [TIME, April 16]. Our religion, particularly Protestantism, has become a social uplift movement instead of a transforming force in the life of the individual as intended by the Master. We go to church for the sake of conscience and a "good feeling," hear words of indulgence which should be words of the severity of truth, and then mistake the good feeling we have for true religion, forgetting God betweentimes. The result is that our religion is purely emotional and somehow fails to find expression in our lives...
...street in Berlin, like Benito Mussolini on a sidewalk in Milan, there will be few people in Germany who will be mourning his passing. The few will be the Nazi Party's fanatic core who still believe in Naziism, and for that belief and for the sake of their own lives fight on. A growing majority of Germans, however, are looking on Adolf Hitler today with bitterness and angry despair as the man who gambled them and their lives away...
...learn his submission to unreason; And that for man's own sake as well...
...swagger and taken away his Continental, scamp-like grace. But it tells much the same story and weaves much the same mood. Billy acts tough for fear of seeming tender, beats his wife lest he reveal he loves her. He commits a crime for his unborn child's sake, dies, leans carelessly against the bar of Heaven, returns to Earth for a day to try to do a good deed...