Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stretches in strangle middle-sized cities where it seems like the whole game, no matter how much you love it (and they all do, whether they bitch all Page 12/Dump Truck the time or not, Brayton says), is deferred gratification: you aren't playing minor league for its own sake, ever--it's always to get noticed, to make it big, to break through...
...their fellow Chicago Blackhawks could cramp the style of Ernie, Bert, Grover, Big Bird and Cookie Monster. The Sesame Street regulars (played by Shipstads & Johnson's Ice Follies skaters) showed up in Chicago last week for a strictly fun hockey match against the Blackhawks-all for the sake of the team's annual Christmas party. While 80 of the players' wives, children and friends looked on, the Hawks lost the match when Big Bird grabbed the puck in his beak and tossed it in for the winning goal. And how would the animals fare against the Philadelphia...
...confronted in a bedroom of the villa by Interior Minister Oufkir and by two other Moroccans. All three carried pistols. "Who gave you the authorization for what you are doing?" Ben Barka demanded angrily. Replied Oufkir: "We are here in the name of our master and for the sake of Morocco." For several minutes, the three Moroccans carried on a loud argument with their prisoner. Then one of them said: "Let's finish this comedy. You were sentenced to death in Morocco. Now you're going to get it." At that a shot rang out and Ben Barka...
...people in Appalachia, the Ozarks, and Ohio. When he didn't photograph people, he photographed the artifacts which were closest to them--the circus posters which advertised their entertainments or their hand-painted signs with messages like "This is the car HOOVER promised ME, ROOSEVELT gave ME, FOR GODS SAKE DON'T LET LANDON TAKE IT AWAY." The only difference between his subjects and the ones which fill thousands of snapshot albums is that none of Shahn's people could have afforded to keep an album of their...
...ability to function in a world in which that kind of success is not as important as it is elsewhere. Intangible although this may be, it lends a quality of independence of judgment and action which sets a different and better standard than electoral success for its own sake...