Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assigned, though not actually issued. But mechanics inspected every gas tank, oil gauge, transmission, differential, battery, oil filter, radiator and tire to make sure everything was in working order. Soldiers handed out dummy orders and authorized mock money allotments, and women were instructed on driving in convoys for the sake of safety...
...Pope argued, is nothing if not understandable: "Art helps men to know each other ... All maxims which make art fall down from its sublime role profane it, and make it sterile 'Art for Art's Sake...
TIME [July 17] gave the following definition of "The Cat in the Kremlin," that is, of Mr. Stalin:. "Better than any other Bolshevik he got hold of the essential principle of Leninism. The principle: anything for the sake of absolute power over men. Stalin is the No. 1 Communist not merely because he has the top job but because he himself is in a notably advanced stage of Communism . . . It is not true, as the Trotskyists and Socialists say, that he sneaked into power. He got it because he deserved it-by the standards deeply imbedded in Communist philosophy...
...despise the term 'conscientious objector' and we despise the philosophy back of it ... We are not pacifists, and we believe in force for justice's sake, but a Seventh Day Adventist cannot take human life...
...Sake. In St. Louis, Melvin G. Parsons told Secret Service agents why he had taken to making bogus $10 bills: "Good engraving just intrigues...