Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years. Last week on Valentine's night the minisummit was held around the Hatfield dining-room table in Georgetown. Four noted biographers, the Librarian of Congress and their wives spooned homemade strawberry ice cream and counseled Reagan to cling to every scrap of evidence for history's sake...
More dangerous than a little triteness of plot and characterization, however, is the film's essentially revisionist treatment of Southern history. While the writers have every reason, for the sake of the allegory, to want us to believe that one good white man single-handedly integrated the Institute, good allegory is in this case bad history. The Lords of Discipline tells of good white Southerners curing racism on their own, while Pierce, the Black, passively looks...
...write a letter to Yuri Andropov asking to be allowed to emigrate. He told the Soviet leader that he was "ready to accept the familiar thorns of a Russian writer and walk under the vaults of Lefortovo Prison," but had decided to leave for his family's sake. Wrote Vladimov: "To be forced to this is painful and humiliating. We have already proved our love for Russia by the patience with which we endured persecution, repression, humiliation...
When the project is completed in three years, the 33.3-mile Seikan tube will be the world's longest underwater tunnel. But while construction workers last week shouted "Banzai!" and broke out sake, other Japanese wondered why. In fact, Yomiuri, Tokyo's biggest newspaper, dismissed the tunnel as "a white elephant...
Network executives counter with results of a Nielsen cable survey of homes plugged in to 20 or more channels. Only eight of those channels are watched more than an hour a week. As Gene Jankowski, president of the CBS Broadcast Group, notes: "Nobody buys technology for its own sake. You buy the new video technology because it provides a message you can't receive through other means. But it's not the only message, or even the most important one. The networks are. They are the only national instantaneous distribution system, and are likely to remain...