Word: sakes
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...loving God and one's neighbor, caring for the sick, the poor, those in prison and destitute - teaching that what God commands is to "love one another." But because it started after Jesus' crucifixion, his followers often have been willing to risk dying for what they see as the sake of the truth. You can see it in the life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr. - his willingness to risk violence and death allowed him to defy those in power and change our society...
...just money that pushes us, however. Most surgeons love what they do and pushing the envelope, just for the sake of doing it better, faster or especially these days, smaller, has its own attraction. Surgeons who sew arteries went from repairing ones you could see across the room to ones you can barely see with the naked eye. Heart operations, in which they sawed your sternum in half and stopped your heart with ice-water, are now done with a neat little 3-in. cut under your rib while your warm ticker beats on merrily. We did our total hips...
...leadership in World War II, we agreed to ration our consumption of gas, shoes, and coffee, and our national wealth was used to protect our national security. Likewise, Bill Clinton, who asked in his first inaugural for us to choose sacrifice not “for its own sake, but for our own sake,” saw the necessity of restraint in federal spending, allowing our nation to prosper while cutting the budget deficit...
Last week, for the sake of one word, “The Higher Power of Lucky”—this year’s Newbery Medal-winning children’s book—was banned in many school libraries across the country. Apparently, librarians object because the author employs a word on the first page considered inappropriate for its young audience: “scrotum.” According to the New York Times, the book reads, “Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough...
...stand as a monument to fish and as an excuse for a day off—a small piece of idiosyncrasy that somehow gives me assurance. The strength of our local flavors lies in the fact that they aren’t preserved for use’s sake, but because they remind us that who we are partly depends on from where we’ve come...