Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipment and manpower shortages, gas rationing and a host of other wartime worries have put some brakes on the farmland boom market up to now. The real danger in the 1943 boomlet is that too many farmers might decide to take a flyer in land for speculation's sake and not for the land's produce. Against that psychology, if & when it arrives, the U.S. farmer's best weapon will be a long memory...
Lawson told Doc White, "For Christ's sake, take...
...positively admitted to Cowie again. Could've been last week, only somebody was, waiting for somebody to tell somebody, or something. Also, our water-glass campaign seems to have worked, and, from what we hear, the "no seconds" on milk is an economy move, and not for health's sake as heretofore believed. Okay, then, let's have some more milk...
...course it is a secret where they are going. Mel wouldn't dare tell any of his "thoughtful" friends this dark secret--not since he heard what the Smith boys of Company C did to their "dear" name. sake, Hollister Smith, on the latter's wedding night several weeks ago.. The boys were so solicitous of Hollister's welfare that they called him long distance--Cambridge to New York City--just to ask him how he was. He mumbled an "all right" from his hotel room in New York and hung up. It is even rumored that the charges...
...rifles and plenty of ammunition and pockets full of hand grenades. Some soldiers heard the attackers shouting: "Japanese boys kill American boys! Japanese drink blood like wine!" But for their wild, weird screams, the Japs might have killed many more Americans in their sleep. The Japs brought 40-ounce sake wine bottles with them...