Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sake of drama or publicity, numbers are slapped on nearly everything-and the bigger the number the better. During July's two-day rail strike, the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry issued an instant statistic that the city was losing $40 million to $60 million a day, into which total were cranked lost railroad fares and freight revenues, reduced restaurant and hotel receipts, smaller store sales, and presumably the money that visiting butter-and-egg conventioneers or traveling salesmen might spend on tours and girls. Overlooked was the probability that most of the businessmen made their visit anyway...
...more startling because of his oft-repeated anti-Communist views, declared: "May I speak only as a Christian and humbly ask the President to announce, 'In the name of God, who bade us love our neighbor with our whole heart and soul and mind, for the sake of reconciliation I shall withdraw our forces immediately from Southern Viet Nam.' " Retired Army General James M. Gavin, a former U.S. ambassador to France who early last year recommended consolidating U.S. positions in strategic enclaves in Viet Nam, last week resigned from the Massachusetts Democratic Advisory Council to protest the Administration...
...news smote him mightily, but discretion seemed the better part of valor. Not until his mother died did he for sake Marion and move into the fine house that he had bought in St. John's Wood for Bambi and their son Mark...
Kirstein has Elizabeth Keckley (Nancy McDaniel), the local White House witch accuse Lincoln of "playing with words." And Old Abe's bastard Negro son-valet interrupts Lincoln's speeches for definitions. Lincoln's two secretaries who will write histories talk about history. Characters repeat words for the sake of Meaning. "Till the day I die," says Abe. "The day you die?" say they. "The very day'" says Abe. O ominous, O morbid...
...cried. "Come out, boys, come on out!" He pulled several out himself, suffering burns on his face and back. Some staggered out on their own. Flames kept others from the exit, and ax-wielding guards and convicts frantically chopped a hole in the wall. "For God's sake, men," sobbed one of the rescued convicts, "come out." Only 16 did-and of those, three died later and five were injured...