Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many other bodies were entombed under the shattered walls and roofs of the hilltop bunker line is beyond saying," writes Marshall. "The victors had no wish to delve and dig for the sake of such meaningless statistics. The war in Viet Nam is so little understood by their countrymen that the relative death rate of the two sides is given wholly disproportionate emphasis." After reading this book, those statistics take on a much deeper meaning...
...madman. Joe's always horsing around doing things like converting to Mohammedanism at the lousy military school up in the goddam mountains so he can sleep with his Muslim classmate's sister, who he's never even seen, for God's sake. I mean Joe's really alienated...
...rights movement, for example, is the rule that a demonstration must be reasonably related to a specific target of protest. Demonstrators who glorify the Viet Cong, burn flags or draft cards, urge the world in general to "make love, not war," are indulging in dissent for dissent's sake. They are staging a mindless happening devoid of rational ideas...
Although Blackstone Street remains as prosperous as ever, the old market district is changing. Slowly at first, more rapidly now, the wholesale companies are leaving the area--fruit and produce to Chelsea and Everett, meat to the "new market" in South Boston. For tradition's sake, however, some wholesalers will remain in the block-long granite warehouse known as the Quincy Market. The pushcart market is not moving. It will still be native cukes, Italian sausage, and provolone cheese. Hey, buddy, you want some nice bananas? Just ten cents a pound...
...that had not been there in the earlier days: a histrionic note, a note of self-consciousness, of pretention; a desire not just to be something but to appear as something, to appear as something greater perhaps than one actually was; the desire to play a role for the sake of playing a role, and to be seen by others as playing it; a desire to compel others to associate themselves with the ritual of self-esteem and self-glorification that was now becoming a regular feature of the rhetoric of American public life...