Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...USED TO BE SAID of Lyndon Johnson that whenever he felt the urge to sacrifice a little political capital for the sake of principle, he would lie down until it passed. A generation of Texas Democratic leaders learned that policy at the knee of House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texan whose favorite motto was "to get along, go along." That attitude helped make Rayburn the longest-tenured Speaker the House has ever had--he held the job for a total of 17 years--and probably the most influential politician in Texas history. Fourteen years after his death, Texas politics...
...considered him overly acerbic, abrasive, aggressive? The answer, it seemed, was a combination of both, with the personal motive outweighing the policy problem. A President is certainly entitled to fire advisers with whom he cannot work. But a self-assured President should also be tolerant of dissent for the sake of keeping himself open to different points of view...
...Schlesinger. He told the New Republic's John Osborne in April 1974 that if he became President, he might not keep the caustic Schlesinger in his Cabinet because he did not think the Secretary could deal with Congress. Ford, as well, felt uncomfortable with Schlesinger. But, apparently for the sake of continuity, he made no change...
...beefy chorines in numbered jerseys are really Los Angeles Rams Cody Jones, Fred Dryer, Bob Klein, Merlin Olsen, Larry Brooks, Tom Mack, Bill Nelson and Jack Youngblood. The players are holding hands because they are rehearsing a high-kick production number with Dancer Cissie Wellman Donner, all for the sake of a Nov. 19 multiple sclerosis fund-raising benefit in L.A. Come show time, the boys will look even more terpsichorean, according to Costumer Barbara Zelin. Besides pink tutus, "the fellows will wear low-cut white tank tops with their numbers in pink sequins, white tights to show off their...
...sake, that has nothing to do with what your view or my view of life is," Dr. Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine and director of medicine at the Harvard teaching hospital, says. "We're not talking about someone lying comfortably in bed and some brute comes along and ends their life...