Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Declaration of Independence said, 'For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.' It was a solemn pledge of all they held dear for the sake of justice. I don't believe that spirit has gone out of these United States . . ." - Elizabeth Boardman of Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...measured voice, Douglas laid his proposals before the Senate. They were not easily arrived at nor lightly offered, he said. They involved some grave risks. But they recognized that a greater danger lay in losing all initiative for the sake of avoiding all risk. The Douglas proposals: ¶ Pass a congressional resolution approving the Brussels agreement for a North Atlantic army. Contribute American divisions to it on a proportionate basisabout one for every 3½ European divisions. (If the Administration did not seek congressional approval in a few days, said Douglas, he would bring the issue...
...safety's sake, Captain Charles R. Pilcher of the liner Rangitoto offered to lower a lifeboat when he learned that a passenger, the Most Rev. Dr. Geoffrey F. Fisher, 63, Archbishop of Canterbury, wanted to go ashore in Panama and planned to leave the ship via the jouncing boarding ladder. The sure-footed prelate declined the lifeboat, and when he learned that the captain was partially worried about the ship's safety record, dashed off a limerick for the occasion...
...fight. They are good soldiers (ask their enemies) . . . In the last 300 years they have fought the Russians in 13 wars totaling 51 years, one year out of every six! If Mehmet is called again to fight the Moskovs, he must be given a fair chance for the sake of the free world...
...They do nothing to repair the picture's ingrained faults. As Director Seaton himself demonstrated in Miracle on 34th Street, the supernatural elements of a fantasy are best played off against the familiar realities of an everyday world. Instead, the coy hocus-pocus of For Heaven's Sake takes place in the never-never land of Hollywood farce...