Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friday morning a CRIMSON editorial unwittingly advocated that the Cambridge Police establish a more efficient patrol of Garden Street, for the sake of harassed Radcliffe girls. This editorial was indeed misguided, for at the very time of its printing, a student was languishing in a Cambridge jail, a victim of an all-too-close surveillance by the local gendarmes...
Moralists following the Ivy League standard of football for athletics' sake can wag their fingers toward Hanover these days and say, "I-told-you-so." For Dartmouth committed the unpardonable last year in "elevating" a Green institution, venerable Tuss McLaughry, from varsity football coach to Director of Physical Education, after his 3-6 record...
...Sake of Reform. Slowly Faure picked up support. At week's end the Socialists reluctantly decided they would support him-for the sake of North African reform, which they approve, rather than Faure himself, whom they do not. With their 105 votes, they more than made up for the defecting Gaullists. Though Faure insisted he did not want or need them, the Communists (90 votes) also threw in with the Premier...
...high-buttoned shoes, grey suede gloves and blue-patterned tie, he drove off to see friends, and to receive the congratulations of the German Navy Association. Asked if he had any political plans for the future, Raeder said with a huff and a grin: "For God's sake, no! That is the very last thing I need." Raeder was released at the request of the West German government, which wants to give its new army a clean start by removing the war crimes onus from men whom most Germans generally considered to have been upright soldiers...
...Airport control tower, TV's humbly arrogant Arthur Godfrey buzzed himself into another jam with the Civil Aeronautics Administration. The charge: flying so close to an airliner over Chicago's Midway Airport that he forced the plane to reduce its speed. "Oh, for Christ's sake," cried Godfrey. "We certainly weren't endangering him. I merely dipped my wing to say hello. It's like tipping your hat. How close could I have been, if the pilot had to call the tower to ask the identification of my plane? All I do is say hello...