Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...title contenders slugging it out. Both teams lost talented quarterbacks--Brown lost Mark Whipple and Yale lost Pat O'Brien. Brown has a proven offensive backfield except for the quarterback; Yale does not. Brown also holds a defensive edge with just some secondary vacancies to fill. But for the sake of variety, Yale in an upset...
While the rhetoric has soared in Congress, the Administration has struggled to keep the out-of-control issue in perspective. Said a senior White House aide: "We're not trying to make it into a confrontation for the sake of confrontation. We're not trying to shove it up Moscow's nose." He stressed that "you don't want to treat this as another Cuban missile crisis," which it certainly is not. There was not even a hot-line contact between Carter and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Although the Administration to some extent triggered the uproar by briefing...
...which I myself contributed." Implicitly, he almost seemed to endorse Charles de Gaulle's skeptical rationale for building the French force de frappe in 1959; that is, in the final analysis, no U.S. President could be relied upon to put American cities on the line for the sake of Europe...
...BLACK STAR Among the most important was Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who said she delayed agreeing to speak up for Connally for a week, partly because she felt she was "being used ... because [Washington] is an overwhelmingly black town" but finally testified on his behalf for the sake of fairness...
...Mideast." Nathan Perlmutter, director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, called the black leaders' charges an "amalgam of half-truths, untruths and anti-Semitic nonsense." Howard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, accused black leaders of attacking Jews "for the sake of reviving the sagging institutional fortunes of civil rights organizations that have seen better days...