Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman kiss ardently he would wonder if this was a country tomorrow or the day after he would be expected to leave." Then, a mere few weeks later. Sears finds himself leaving for work in the morning--he is a computer company executive--without his boxer shorts for the sake of reaching nakedness in record time for an afternoon frolic. On another occasion Sears ruminates on the temptress Renee's remark "that male discharges were, in her experience the most restorative face cream." Shortly afterward, Sears finds himself lilted--out on his ear without explanation. Distraught, he winds...
...discussion had deteriorated by 1972 into an attack on motives, poisoning the public discourse that is the lifeblood of a democratic society. Critics claimed a monopoly on the desire for peace, ridiculing and condemning all other concerns as subterfuges for psychotic commitment to killing for its own sake. The systematic undermining of trust short-circuited a process of maturing. It fostered the illusions that all frustrations in the world reflected the evil intent of America's leaders, that what ailed America was a loss of its moral purity and that our difficulties could be set right by a return...
...respect or his almost certain departure of dignity. So I took the floor as the senior Cabinet officer. "This is a very difficult time for our country," I said. "Our duty is to show confidence. We must demonstrate that the country can go through its constitutional processes. For the sake of foreign policy we must act with assurance...
...traversed a constitutional crisis without catastrophe. Yet no one had taken over the presidency in more challenging circumstances; great crises were surely ahead. And the prayer that had eluded me two nights earlier came to me as I watched Gerald Ford enter the White House: for the sake of all of us, that fate would be kind to this good man, that his heart would be stout, and that America under his leadership would find again its faith...
...This is what we've been waiting for all year," Cleary said yesterday, "and for the seniors' sake especially, I want to do it. It's been a long, long time...