Word: lest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...runs a post-game show that reports final scores of other contests and, like everything else in TV, the advertising revenue for these "wrap-ups" is dependent upon ratings. Thus in the fourth quarter of a televised football game, announcers conveniently neglect to give the scores of other games lest they discourage viewers from staying tuned for the wrapup...
...sensible road between capitulation and the indiscriminate use of raw power. We believe that we speak for the great 'silent center' of American life, the understanding, independent and responsible men and women who have consistently opposed rewarding international aggressors from Adolf Hitler to Mao Tse-tung." Lest Hanoi get the wrong idea from antiwar demonstrations, it added: "We want the aggressors to know that there is a solid, stubborn, dedicated, bipartisan majority of private citizens in America who approve our country's policy of patient, responsible, determined resistance...
...skill. He announced that he would seek a new state program to create jobs in ghettos by offering tax incentives to businesses that locate there. But on national politics he had nothing to add to his remark of the previous week: "I don't want to be President." Lest this discourage Rockefeller's fans, Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew, one of his most irrepressible supporters, declared cryptically: "Rockefeller is just as much of a non-candidate as he was before...
...Lest the public think that the racketeers are mellowing, the crime commission warned: "In whatever activity organized crime engages, legitimate or illicit, its method of operation is the same-the maintenance of a monopoly through extortion and violence or imposing the fear of violence." Added Commission Vice Chairman Daniel Walker: "They only get their money by dealing with the public, and the public can shut off their source of funds...
Case in Point. Lest people think that he is promoting pop pornography Geis explains solemnly that "there's quite a distinction between pornography and erotic literature. We are not publishing a string of sexual scenes for the sake of titillation." For what other purpose then? Says Geis: "There is a perfectly legitimate public curiosity about what goes on behind the scenes." Not that people really find out what goes on in the Geis version of the roman è clef. The formula does not require that the novel be based even loosely on truth or, for that matter, on gossip...