Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glowing determination to walk "the extra mile" toward peace, has President Eisenhower walked too far for U.S. security's sake? Yes, said two knowledgeable liberal Democrats last week. He did so when he ordered U.S. nuclear tests stopped for one year without the U.S.'s twelve-year-old precondition of foolproof inspection (TIME, Sept. 1), did so again when he endorsed a test inspection system prepared by his scientific advisers which admitted that relatively small Russian underground blasts (less than five kilotons) could probably not be detected...
...There was sake, of course," reported the disgruntled American tourist in Tokyo last week, "but the girls seemed most interested in plying us with highballs. 'Let's dance!' one of them said, stubbing out her cigarette, and we all cha-chaed to a hi-fi phonograph. When we finished eating, another girl with a horse's laugh, said, 'Let's play baseball.' So we all got up and pretended to be hitting, catching and running: the object of the game was to bump rumps. Later the girls offered to dance for us. They...
...tinkle of the samisen, a mossy garden with elegant dollhouse trees, a banquet starting with pickled sea-urchin eggs, dried seaweed, bonito entrails, mushrooms, and cuttlefish served with maple leaves and chrysanthemums. Above all, it meant the geisha girls themselves, in lacquered wigs and colorful kimonos, who poured sake from porcelain vases, performed their slow and discreet dances, and sang their sad, seductive love invitations...
Bundy interpreted the election of Eisenhower as the popular choice of "a personality adequate in terms of knowledge, ability to delegate responsibility, unwillingness to undertake new ventures for their own sake--a balance between safety and responsibility." The qualities reflected public feelings toward international as well as domestic issues...
Industry's argument for such variety is that the individualistic U.S. consumer demands a wide choice. But it is industry's own ads and competitive claims-linked with its passion for changing models yearly for the sake of change-that spur the public's appetite for variety and innovation. Says Art Sellgren, owner of a Detroit Buick agency: "The more choices people have, the more they want...