Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admissions as causes of this attitude, pointed out, "We have tried quite hard to dispel the idea that grades alone are used in deciding matters like scholarships." He urged students to take advantage of the College's many distinguished authorities by taking the courses that they give for the sake of learning...
...their anxiety to give away other people's property for the sake of peace, neither Eden nor the British Laborites mentioned another offshore island-Hong Kong. With a shrewd instinct for exploiting U.S.-British differences and for gobbling up one goody at a time, the Chinese Communists have not mentioned it either, though the Chinese claim to Hong Kong is geographically and historically better than their claim to Formosa. Ironically, the firmest official British pronouncement on Hong Kong was made in 1949 by Clement Attlee's Labor Government. "Britain," said the spokesman defiantly, "intended to stand fast...
...politicians. Where Mendès whipped men to decision by the scornful lash of his tongue, Faure seeks to cajole. But two months ago Faure flew into a rage when L'Express' Editor Servan-Schreiber hinted that he had reduced the tax on race horses for the sake of his fellow members of the Racing Club, challenged the editor to a duel, was practicing myopicaliy with a revolver before Mendès managed to calm...
...demiurge of destiny, summoned onto his canvas in a few hours (exactly the time taken by the fighting) first the army of the King of France . . . then the armies of the coalition; above there spurted onto the canvas splashes of larger characters and many colors, used for their own sake just as much as for the pure joy of the symbol...
...total); it has 600,000 dues-paying members and the powerful support of the Trade Union Federation (membership: 6,000,000). But since Schumacher died, the SPD has been bankrupt of ideas and of the men and the drive to apply them. It opposes out of habit, for the sake of opposition...