Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sakaki & Sake. There were 869 carefully selected guests in the outer garden of the shrine, including 37 former peers, Premier Kishi and his Cabinet, a Nobel Prizewinning physicist, the farmer who last year grew the most rice per acre, and only one foreigner-Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, the American Quaker who was the prince's tutor from...
...with these in their hands, they bowed four times. The prince then pulled out of his long sleeve a scroll, informing his ancestors that "from now on we shall love each other forever." After withdrawing on their knees to the outer sanctum, the couple took tiny sips of sake. At the moment the cup left Michi's lips, she was Akihito's wife...
...sandwich. Michi had her hair washed and reset, and, over a white and gold Western dress, for the first time donned the pearl-studded, golden Order of the Sacred Crown. At 2 p.m. the young couple officially reported the marriage to the Emperor and Empress. After exchanging cups of sake and going through the ritual of symbolic eating, the prince and his bride stepped into a rust-colored carriage for the five-mile drive to his Eastern Palace-a shabby place, cluttered with clerks and files on the first floor, and no match for the luxurious home that Michiko...
Although the Society will ponder current and controversial topics, Green said that discussions would be for the sake of controversy itself rather than any hope of resolving issues. "What the club will be depends on who comes," he added, but already tutors and graduate students connected with the House have shown interest, "so the outcome looks propitious...
...verbal manipulation, and the play's verse, ornate and intensive in itself, abounds with witty repartee and with imagery sustained throughout and amplified. The characters, each in his own way, fall in love with metaphor and this richness of language displeases only when it verges on words for words' sake. The setting in a God-conscious world gives an air of profundity to the word--a feeling intensified by the language--but an air not completely founded. Mendip's hell and Alizon's heaven and Jennet's "essential fact" are all modified...