Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exile me," Makarios wrote: "I shall bear no grudge on account of this action. It is possible that the talks will be resumed at the point where they were broken off. But in that case, why the sacrifice of so many human beings, both British and Cypriot? For the sake of prestige, pride and obstinacy? None of these sentiments is worth the sacrifice of even a single human being." At week's end, counting their casualties in Operation Lucky Alphonso (21 dead, 15 badly burned), the British were ready to seek...
Without boastfulness, Dick Richards told the conference that he understood the House temper on foreign aid as well as any man alive. If his committee had not made some cuts, said he, the House might have slashed much more drastically. For the sake of continued aid, he added, he would rather risk opposition...
...take this clause to Parliament . . ." he said, "the chances of its being rejected are almost overwhelming. We must take into account whether, for the sake of a clause we believe in, it would be wise to challenge a final battle...
...North Carolina, another spokesman expressed the same feeling. He said that Negro teachers expect the loss "of a few jobs here and there, perhaps wholesale in some places. Most of us know it is a calculated risk that we have to take for the sake of the next generation...
...their reunion with a rousing "Tiger, tiger, tiger, sis-boom-bah!" Then, starting out in Tokyo (where they lunched with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese...