Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never been out of financial trouble. Last week, in a poignant effort to raise money, its volunteer staff began a drive to collect old license plates that it hopes to sell for scrap. But somewhere, insists Mrs. Tunnicliff, the school will find the funds it needs-for the sake of the eleven-year-old with the body of a child of six, for the small boy who developed an emotional trauma from so many beatings at home that he can only say the word "pump," for the 30-year-old spastic who after 17 years of grueling work...
...Huang spent more and more time in the company of his new love, he saw less and less of his old friends. Hung gradually persuaded the hypnotized actor to desert his family, his career and his principles. "I decided to throw in my whole lot for her sake alone," he wrote. "I wanted to share everything, good or bad, with her. I sold myself unconditionally and promised to do whatever she wanted...
...unimpressed with the success of which a man like Charles E. Wilson is so proud. "Any damn fool," White quotes a Senator's recent comment "can make a million dollars." The Senate is not interested in speed, or in majority rule, or in bigness for its own sake...
Barzun concludes: "To expand for the sake of a mere numerical show would be akin to demagogy, especially if done in the name of civic duty. And from the truly social point of view it would amount to debasing the coinage-a poor gift to the unsuspecting students seeking our degrees and to the community that would accept them at face value...
Wyeth has won acclaim (TIME, July 16, 1951) despite the fact that his painstaking realism, his romantic, nostalgic overtones and meticulous brushwork flout nearly every tenet of the paint-for-paint's-sake schools of abstraction and impressionism now in vogue. He paints what he knows best: his latest tempera, titled Chambered Nautilus,* is a portrait of his mother...