Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation and world kept crowding at the rate of 2.000 or 3.000 letters a week. Theodore Roosevelt had said: "The world has set its face hopefully toward our democracy, and. oh my fellow citizens, each one of you carries on your shoulders the burden of doing well for the sake of your own country and of seeing that this nation does well for the sake of mankind...
...cancer scare with "deceptive" and "misleading" ads. Actually, said the committee, "the filter cigarette smoker is, in most cases, getting as much or more nicotine and tar than he would get from the regular cigarette the advertisers have persuaded him to abandon-for his health's sake...
...Denis, 32. He kept it so secret that it was only found out a few years ago. when a trove of his letters to her came to light. Both Voltaire and Emilie were getting temporarily bored with one another, but, as Voltaire explained, it was necessary for the sake of appearances to maintain one of France's most famous love affairs-otherwise, what would people say? And so the two philosophers remained close-until Emilie became pregnant, at the age of 42 (much too old, by the standards of her day), by the handsome Marquis de Saint-Lambert...
...Created Woman-a story of a woman indiscriminately seeking a bed-mate-that customers are packing into highbrow art theaters around the nation to give her some lowbrow ogling. But when Brigitte went on display in Philadelphia, she stopped the show. "Dirt for dirt's sake," cried District Attorney Victor H. "Blanc. Last week the D.A.'s office confiscated the film from two theaters and charged the owners with violating an anti-obscenity film provision in the state's criminal code...
...detested sex ("disgusting," she said) that the Emperor reportedly continued for some time to find reconciliation upon the broad fields of Beauregard. But as time passed, the "countess" (her title was never confirmed) devoted more and more of her life to good works, flowers and tapestry. For convenience sake she married an Englishman named Trelawny, thus acquiring at last a good name, but still, out of old habit, using phony ones. She died in 1865-and her tombstone carries incorrect dates...