Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Driven by an unhappy awareness of Britain's declining power and her vulnerability to nuclear attack, an increasing number of Englishmen are disposed to favor summit talks on almost any terms. The parade of politicians who play on this wistful longing for talks for talk's sake is headed by Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell. The West should not insist on summit talks "supposed to put the final seal on everything," argues Gaitskell; instead, it should be willing to settle for what he calls "the ice-breaking type of conference...
What the Kremlin appeared to be driving for, even at the price of making procedural concessions, was a new series of parleys for propaganda's sake. In these, surface impressions of East-West cordiality, leaders photographed together smiling, exchanging toasts, etc., would cloak the absence of any real thaw of the cold...
...support of an amalgam of big landlords and conservative Roman Catholics, he won the second election six weeks ago with a 39% of the vote in a four-man race. But until the victory was confirmed by Congress, the threat of mob violence hung over Guatemala City. For the sake of future good relations with the U.S., Ydigoras had some bad publicity to live down...
...voice that has boosted it onto the charts belongs to Negro Singer Johnny Mathis. With the help of some canny promotion, 22-year-old Singer Mathis has also boosted himself during the past year into the most valuable new property in show business. Last week, for the sake of "prestige" (and $2,000 a week plus a percentage of the take), Johnny checked into the Venetian Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and showed the home-town folks how he had made it big so fast...
Even in his native Catalonia, Antoni Gaudi, who died at 73 in 1926, was considered unique and eccentric. His weird and wonderful gatehouses, animal or vegetable apartment-house façades and phantasmal parks that out-Disney Disneyland delighted Barcelonians, even when they were surfaced for economy's sake in broken tiles, old pots and broken glass. Gaudi's greatest problem was that his designs demanded a craftsman's skill to execute and his on-the-spot presence to construct...