Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make this invitation conditional on reciprocity; we don't impose our visits on anybody." To Secretary Dulles' observation that the Soviet Union still seeks cold-war victory, he retorted: "Well, Mr. Dulles, if that's what you want, then for the sake of ending the cold war we are ready to concede you the victory. Consider yourselves the victors in that pointless war, gentlemen, only hurry up and get it over with...
...anonymity's sake, Hume changed his name legally to Brown, thus entitling him to obtain a bona fide passport in that name. But one of anything is scarcely enough for a man like Hume: he soon had a second passport made out to "John Stephen Bird, company director, Liverpool." Thus equipped, Hume began appearing under various aliases in Montreal, Zurich, New York, Frankfort, Los Angeles, without ever being recognized. He spent most of the time in Switzerland, combining petty thievery with his courtship of auburn-haired Divorcee Trudi Sommer, 28, a Zurich beauty-shop owner. To lonely-hearted Trudi...
From such facts Martin and other experts argue that the best way to expand is to improve the economic climate, so that businessmen will have the incentive to accomplish greater growth themselves. They want to work toward a balanced budget, not merely for the symmetrical sake of balance itself, but in order to cut taxes as an encouragement to both business and consumers. Even the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Ruttenberg admits that tax cuts "worked" when the Administration chopped taxes $7.5 billion in 1954: the next year's growth was 8%. How to cut taxes and still maintain vitally...
...intention to awake a lofty ambition in you, and to turn you into gentlemen and Christians, so that you may control your appetites and passions and thus conquer the sin of self." The Yankee educator eased the problem of appetite control by smashing all his scholars' sake bottles, made the students promise to shun both weed and wine and to glorify God. Classes began with hymns and prayers, and the first question on Clark's first examination in physiology read: "Furnish evidences of the existence of one intelligent and benevolent Creator...
...Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with an ex-lover's younger brother that Nancy pleads with her to break the cycle of evil for the sake of her two children, and with the reasoning of utter despair kills the younger child to save a home for the elder...