Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem to have changed your views on divorce since the days when you advised couples to stay together for the sake of the children...
...that's true. I began to see an awful lot of children who were screwed up because the parents were screaming all night. I decided that it wasn't really great advice to say "stay together for the sake of the children...
...shut down the schools in the West Bank. "The schools were closed not because we wanted them closed, but because they became a hotbed for violent activities," says Barukh Binah, spokesman for the Israeli mission to the U.N. "Each time they were opened, there was violence." For the sake of the students, most Palestinians and Israelis hope that will not be the case this time...
...would rather not destroy my social life for the sake of your entertainment. Instead, I am going to try to limit my stories to my inanimate friends at Harvard. Like toilet bowls, liquor stores and the man from Kirkland House I went out with for the first three months of school...
...Prensa. Pedro Joaquin Chamorro inspected Violeta's deeply sunned face and nicknamed her "Morenita," the dark one. He invited her to the beach. Unmoved by his instant attentions, his city ways and his presumption, she declined. He persisted for months, even after she told him, "For God's sake, leave me in peace." But when he complied, says Violeta, "I found I missed him." Finally, having invited her to Mass, he carved a heart into one of the wooden pews. "I was conquered," she says. They were married in December...