Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America, however, are supposed to have gotten beyond all that. Our founding fathers knew, and all who read history honestly know, that our freedom from totalitarian systems, political, theological, or both, was won with great courage and cost. It was won for the sake of a better life, at least here and now, for all; a life in which every man could think and worship as he pleases, whether he be right or wrong, and in the majority or a minority, so long as others have the same right. The resulting interplay can create still better views. This principle allows...
...deviant for sake of deviation, nor the person who likes to be different, solely to attract attention...
Although questioning of homeowners might shorten the list of housing available to students, Sarbanes said, "I don't think that for the sake of longer listings we should include landlords who openly discriminate...
...town. Derided and humiliated by them. Kunrad takes his revenge by magically extinguishing every fire in Munich, leaving the helpless bluenoses in chilly darkness. Kunrad delivers a 20-minute homily to the chastened Münchners (dramatically cumbersome, but Strauss insisted he had written the opera only for the sake of that speech. Soon all Munich is busily engineering Kunrad's conquest and Diemut's capitulation-which occurs offstage but to almost pornophonically explicit music from the orchestra...
...crockery. Once he invaded the apartment of a complete stranger and began breaking up everything in sight. When the police picked him up, his sponsors at the auto works telephoned in desperation: "Do you know whom you've arrested? Streltsov, our best footballer! For heaven's sake, don't make a fuss!" The plant even gave him a luxury apartment after he had tossed his wife and infant into the street, and the Moscow City Economic Council continued to shower him with bonuses. Edouard loved the high life. "I've tried everything, achieved everything, seen everything...