Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SENSE, Mario Vargas-Llosa's latest novel, The War at the End of the World, is a retelling of an old story. Ever since the Holy Grail was lost, men and women have forsaken everything for the sake of eternal salvation. But the temporal results are seldom beneficial. Usually the participants end up like they do here, dying violently with a prayer on their lips...
...newspaper so as not to have to see that. You bear a grudge. You've told everybody. But you don't think about what there was in a father's heart. From the beginning. I had to hide it behind a newspaper-anything. For your sake." Readers who know nothing about the Kafkas will still have no trouble catching this story's amusing and poignant drift: rare are the parents who can recognize themselves in their children's eyes...
...damned-if-he-does-and-damned-if-he-doesn't dilemma. And there is tension over the still uncertain prospects of striking a deal with Jesse Jackson that would avoid both a disruptive convention battle and any appearance that Mondale had surrendered principle for the sake of party peace...
Budd's qualification for the Olympics shows that the political hurdles are surmountable. It proves that some day the Games can be free of politics and be held for competition's own sake...
...under pressure from all sides to keep any door open. At the economic summit in London, the leaders of the world's major industrial democracies fretted over the dangerous state of U.S.Soviet relations. At one point, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau urged Reagan, "For heaven's sake, Ron, do a bit more." Reagan removed his eyeglasses and shot back, "Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do? We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table." Early last week legislators in Reagan's own party implored...