Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even won over some Southern defectors (although not such diehards as Virginia's Harry Byrd, Mississippi's Jim Eastland, Arkansas' John McClellan and J. William Fulbright). House opposition was so weak, in short, that only a few recalcitrant Southerners took the trouble to harangue for the sake of the record. Swiftly the vote came to the floor-a rousing 323-89-and swiftly the word sped to the two Hawaiian officials holding the phones...
...emancipation: the Japanese man. Few husbands will take their wives out for an evening. Their usual excuse is that their employers, for business reasons, insist that they attend numerous geisha parties, where much of the nation's business is still transacted. In the geisha houses, the jokes and sake drinking have not changed in a thousand years. Tipsy politicians and businessmen play such children's games as "scissors, paper, rock" or the passing of lighted tapers until they go out, to determine who must drink penalty cups of sake. When not being pinched or fondled by male guests...
...serious scholar. A highly intelligent, sensitive man, he is the opposite of the typical big-time athlete. Even without his magnificent athletic prowess, he could stay at Villanova solely on the strength of his academic attributes. It is against the basic concept of amateurism to slight education for the sake of sport. Ron Delany's greatness should not be turned against...
...days of classical education in secondary schools such a course would be unnecessary. However, with Latin and Greek no longer in favor and Bible reading for its own sake almost a thing of the past, some means must be found to make the myth, not the footnote, come alive for modern students. It seems sentimental to believe that a student who has already passed the language requirement will begin a program of Greek in order to read Homer in the original. It is not unrealistic, however, to study classical works in translation as myths which are to occur again...
...they came out of the wings. They must give the impression that elaborate epigrams and elegant pseudo-nonsense are as natural to them as "Please pass the ketchup" and "Aw, go---yourself" are to us. Any gesture or inflection that seems as if it is there for its own sake, or for the sake of the laugh it creates, or in a self-conscious attempt at style, or because the actor cannot think of anything better, or because a bit of the actor himself emerges when he is not looking--is wrong. Extravagance there must be, to match Wilde...