Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend, like someone you take into your home because you are interested in him as a person--no matter what mood he's in or what he has to say. Anderson noted British audiences come closer to his idea. They tend to enjoy plays more for their own sake, he said, and not so much for their cocktail party value. Often the British will even go back to see a play a second time when someone new takes over a part whereas the American theater is likely to be empty once the "big name" leaves...
...facts, there are many proposals in the message which deserve support from the Democratic Congress. His foreign aid and trade programs, particularly, should receive high priority, although the offer of long-term economic aid would have sounded more impressive abroad if the President had recommended assistance for its own sake and not as an anti-communist weapon...
...pictor, qui multas tabulas et parietes in diversis locis pinxit, accepit habitum clericorum in hoc conventu . . . et in sequenti anno fecit professionem."* To this, Vasari adds only that Fra Giovanni's name was Guido, that he was born in 1387, and entered the Dominican monastery "chiefly for the sake of his soul and for his peace of mind...
...later married Aggatha Ann's two sisters and finally their widowed mother, "for her soul's sake...
...abandon a still sound ship in the open sea and entrust their fates and those of their passengers to the doubtful security of an outboard dinghy and three flimsy life rafts? An island newspaper stoutly proclaimed that pirates had seized the passengers and scuttled the ship for the sake of a thousand pounds reputedly resting in the wallet of one of the passengers. But what pirate worth his salt would jettison a ship as fine as the Joyita? Other theorists argue that a waterspout struck Joyita and pointed to her damaged superstructure as evidence. But careful examination of the damage...