Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have meant waiting two weeks for favorable tides. And that would have involved a grave risk to secrecy and morale. The Germans had been led to expect a landing at a later date and a point farther east on the coast. Eisenhower gambled on the weather for the sake of tactical surprise...
Self-education for its own sake, without reference to the winning of formal credits, is the method by which the Nieman foundation annually affords educational opportunities to outstanding journalists. Ten Nieman fellows began a year's study here on November 6 to increase their competence in subjects with which they will have to deal as writers and editors...
Author Wells implied that Winston Churchill was as much an anomalous survival in politics as the platypus is in nature. Cried Wells: "We want him to go-now-before he discredits us further, for his own sake as well as ours. . . . The matter is urgent. . . . There can be no doubt of the feelings of the common people of England . . . about this ugly business in Greece and other countries under the heel of slapdash British Toryism. ... If we do not end Winston, Winston will...
...uneven prose in which Raymond Chandler wrote the original thriller. Aside from that it handles Chandler's extremely cinemadaptable story so well that, if anything, it improves it in the retelling. It is the story of an indigent Los Angeles private detective (Dick Powell) who, for the sake of a few spare dollars, helps a gigantic imbecile named Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to hunt down the girl he loved when he went to jail. In the course of the quest the detective interviews a wonderful, boozy old floozy (Esther Howard) who could bring Hogarth up to date. Before long...
...sake, tobacco...