Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leafy glades of the Catskills (and incidentally founded the first self-conscious U.S. regional group, the Hudson River School). Ever since, artists have made it a habit to pack up canvas and paints, take off for a working summer vacation. In the current paint-for-paint's-sake decade, artists continue to take the bus, borrow a car or hitchhike to the summer Bohemias, where they crowd the bars and grow summer beards...
...neither pride nor preoccupation with a job to do that gave the British their strength, says Fleming, citing the Times with approval; it was the universal understanding that all had lost something and would lose more, and that "now the days are all lived for their own sake...
...itself; it must be related to and in furtherance of a legitimate task of the Congress. Investigations conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to 'punish' those investigated are indefensible . . . We have no doubt that there is no congressional power to expose for the sake of exposure...
Early Career. Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, 70 miles from Hiroshima, son of a poor sake manufacturer and an aristocratic mother (her father was a samurai) who demanded perfection. Nobusuke (meaning: defender of the trust) was a child prodigy at school, specialized in German law at Tokyo University, graduated at the top of his class (1920). With offers of teaching posts, he chose the civil service, joined the Agriculture and Commerce Ministry as a clerk, rose rapidly, toured (1926-27) in the U.S. and Europe studying the steel industry. Posted to Manchuria in 1937, he was a top economic czar...
...system.) But in the case of the Masden boys, the problem is not only medical but legal. Unlike the earlier cases, the Masdens are minors. Argue the lawyers: not even the boys' mother could give legal consent to "an invasion" of Leonard's person for the sake of Leon...