Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times one morning last week was a full-page advertisement that showed a mushroom cloud, huge, horrific, indistinct. WE MUST POSTPONE OUR COMING TESTS, proclaimed the ad's sponsor, an organization called the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy-ACT NOW FOR MAN'S SAKE. The way to do that, said the committee, was to 1) write President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon; 2) write Congressmen, editors and commentators; 3) "organize a group" or work with existing groups "in your community." The point to make: the U.S.'s summer series of nuclear weapons tests...
...answer to Batista's charge that Castro's movement is "proSoviet and pro-Communist," friends of Castro point to the character of his army. Almost to a man, they are Roman Catholics, who wear religious medals on their caps or on strings around their necks. For the sake of getting on with the war, Castro says, he avoids fruitless political discussions with his one outrightly pro-Red captain...
...country of the worst type," chided Britain and the U.S. for bowing to Indian pressure, broadly hinted that if Pakistan became more seriously threatened by India, it would "break all pacts in the world and go and shake hands with the people whom we have made enemies for the sake of others." Noon's outburst gave popular expression to what seems to most Pakistanis the major fact of international life: India's neutralism has been rewarded by the big U.S., while their own loyalty has brought them continued poverty and no support on Kashmir. The fact that...
...that is anything but typical of U.S. Protestantism. Says Lutheran Jaroslav Pelikan. professor of Historical Christianity at the University of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty: "We are theologically specific and theologically concerned. We are not concerned with positive thinking, with hustle-bustle for its own sake. We are not just a chummy group. The interesting thing is that while the historic differences remain. Lutherans have begun to recognize that they are closer to Roman Catholics in many ways than they are to other Protestants...
...demanding that the U.S. fold up its bases and go home. The conservative Democratic Party and Independent Jugo Thoma, U.S.-appointed chief executive of the Okinawan government, doggedly defended their cooperation with the U.S. administration, pointed to schools built and roads abuilding. The Socialist Masses Party concentrated on throwing sake parties, where the rice wine flowed freely...