Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allergy to absolutes has recently spread from the campus to the courts. It scars the modern mind with but one conviction, namely, that every and any conviction is always subject to change without notice. As pure intellectual exercise, this hypothetical school of political science is entirely defensible. For the sake of pure political hypothesis, it makes little difference whether man is a creature of God or the hind end of a happenstance. But for the sake of American freedom in its life or death struggle with Communism, it makes all the difference in the world. For it so happens that...
...striking, modern-dress stage version of Julius Caesar with Orson Welles) and directed by Joseph (All About Eve) Mankiewicz, this is a polished and lavish production. But, dedicated to the theory that the play's the thing, it does not stress pageantry for its own sake. Faithful in letter and spirit to the play, the movie has no "additional dialogue," and the cuts are mainly in the last third of the play, traditionally considered expendable on the stage...
...movement to get rid of legal murder is linked to an attempt to make prisons what they should be; rehabilitation institutions to cure the criminally ill. Osborne, Lewis E. Lawes, and Miriam Van Waters the rehabilitation concept opposes the archaic idea that criminals should be punished for punishment's sake...
...wanted to marry: John MacBride, "a wiry, soldierly looking man, with red hair and skin burned brick red by the South African sun" (where he had been commander of a volunteer brigade fighting for the Boers against the British). Wrote Sinn Feiner Arthur Griffith to them: "For your own sakes and for the sake of Ireland to whom you both belong, don't get married." But they did, with joy plotting together enough potential terrorism to sink the British Empire. But temperament drove them apart, and two years later they separated. In the 1916 Easter Rebellion, the British captured...
...saga of the waste coats was brought to light last week by the House Government Operations subcommittee. Its aims: 1) to show what happens when money is spent for spending's sake, and 2) to find out who was responsible...