Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George, Orlando, Clemenceau-only Clemenceau really impressed Schwarzschild. The old Frenchman's attitude, denounced the world over as a fatally stupid and selfish policy, was actually, says Schwarzschild, the only sensible policy. Only the Tiger understood that Germany was a jungle to be controlled for France's sake and the world's. Says Schwarzschild...
...worry of most occupied countries is the amount of money that U.S. troops will spend in their territories during the Liberation. In the postwar world such countries would generally like to value their currencies low for the sake of trade, but the lower their currency is valued, the more inflationary are the relatively big amounts of their currency which the doughboys will have to spend...
...good of all of us, but mostly for the sake of our soldiers and sailors, let us hurry, hurry, hurry, not only in winning the war, but in being ready for the peace. If this transition is to be handled without unnecessary unemployment, without further inflation and chaotic confusion, the government must be ready for the swiftest action. . . . Further delays will turn the adventure in prosperity that lies within our grasp into an adventure in adversity...
...Those Mortars." Mortar fire from the cliffs fell like rain on one beach. Over the radio came a pleading voice to R.A.F. Spitfire pilots wheeling overhead: "For God's sake get those mortars quick. Dig them out, boys, they are right down our necks." The Spitfires dipped down and dug the Nazis...
...this sort of story were performed for its own sake, it would play only to ushers and to those who scrape chicle from the undersides of theater seats. Played to music and other anesthetics, the plot is often hardly noticeable. Both Deyo sisters are nice to look at, and Gracie Allen obliges uproariously with her One Finger Piano Concerto...