Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Lyndon Johnson and his fellow Democratic conservatives will doubtless serve on the Ziffren-spawned committee for the sake of appearances, they have no intention of letting him disrupt their plans for running the party. But neither can they feel as complacent as they once did, harassed by the buzzing of the new persistent gadfly from California...
...revolution in painting that we know generally as modern art means anything, it is the liberation of color and form not merely for their own sake, but for more complete human expression. This is the accomplishment of Shahn...
...height of Princess Margaret's off-again, on-again romance with Peter Townsend last year, Britain's Sunday Pictorial burst out with a Page One headline: FOR PETE'S SAKE, PUT HIM OUT OF HIS MISERY. Last week the British Press Council roundly deplored such instances of "coarse impertinence." It cited as another example of "bad taste and worse manners" the Daily Mirror's headline on the same romance...
...Europe to Greece, Harl returned to Provincetown, where, through the years, he has gainfully occupied himself as a fisherman and fish-monger, and latterly, as a coffee grinder. One gathers that he was seriously ill for some time, but this didn't prevent him from driving, for variety's sake, a taxi in New York...
...were scarcely more than divinity schools, the Philadelphia institution pioneered in humanities and natural sciences. In the ensuing two centuries, however, Penn's position has changed. Now it is very much a pretrade school, while the other Ivies uphold, with varying degrees of success, education for education's own sake and a belief that the liberal arts are worthwhile ends in themselves...