Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...civilian who at last benefits from war. And I will have the memory of killed people in my mind." He pauses. "I am a lawyer. In eight years of war I could have made much money, had a future, a family. I missed all that for the sake of others. I missed the best part of my life. But if Lebanon is free again, I will have achieved something...
Catherine Oxenberg We had to meet her bump into her by accident in the Science Center. At least watch her walk across the Lamont Library lobby for God's sake Our hearts ached...
...Arguing against canny insanity pleas, and for moral responsibility, he concludes: "The killing of Bonnie Garland, first by Richard Herrin and then again by a legal and cultural process . . . endangers us all. In our compassion for the criminal, we must remain vigilant in defense of the social for the sake of those innocents living and yet extreme unborn." - By Michael Demarest
...George Foreman as a Belgian.) Yet he never sounded as mean spirited, as hateful and hurt, as Holmes does now. "If Cooney wasn't white, he'd be nothing," says Holmes. "I'm going to cut him, hurt him, open his lip, blacken his eye?for justice's sake. They talk about his great left hook. But what am I, a little child? He's two inches taller [maybe three or four]. Big deal. I'm going to carry him to punish him. And when the referee breaks us, I'm going to pop him and say, 'Here, take this...
Breslin's Teenager is a monster of social determinism: "Rising out of a blank life, he found his identity depended upon his level of violence . . . His search was for domination, his basic urge was to destroy; sexual conquest for the sake of humiliating a woman was the first duty of a man to himself." Stretched between a Hispanic past and American future, Max imo has the makings of a tragic figure, "his feet slipping each time he tried to turn about." Nicki, foulmouthed, man hungry and bound by family code and prejudice, is almost endearing as she figuratively holds...