Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PARENTS will get a U.S. Savings Bond sales pitch from Government as soon as baby is born. In hospital nurseries Treasury Department will circulate a pink promotion letter urging all "Dear Parents" to buy bonds for infant's sake...
GREAT BRITAIN Of Making Princes When Queen Victoria wanted to make her German husband-to-be "King Consort" by Act of Parliament, her favorite Prime Minister, Melbourne, was shocked. "For God's sake, Ma'am," he cried, "let's have no more of it. If you get the English people into the way of making Kings, you will get them into the way of unmaking them." Years later (1857) the young Queen took matters into her own hands and created Albert "Prince Consort...
...hour-long shower of off-the-cuff eloquence, mercurial President Sukarno blamed everything on the existence of opposition parties. "Many opposition leaders oppose the government just for the sake of opposition," complained Sukarno. "Every Cabinet has faced this. No Cabinet has been able to survive long because of the continuing crisis ... I won't say Western democracy is bad. It is simply not suitable for Indonesia...
...never do action for action's sake," says Gunsmoke Producer Norman Macdonnell. "For instance, we've never had a chase on Gunsmoke. We made a list of things that annoyed us in the regular Westerns. For instance, the devotion of the cowboy to his horse. That's a lot of nonsense. The two things a cowboy loves best are his saddle and his hat. And cowboy speech isn't full of things like 'shucks' and 'side-winding varmint.' What's more, the frontier marshals made mistakes sometimes, and they weren...
...centered around an all-too-recognizable bottle, beaker, carafe or cognac glass. What had the artists buzzing was why Ferren had hit on the bottle, and what had hit him hard enough to make him turn his back on the abstractionists' decade of painting for paint's sake...