Word: lest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spent My Summer Vacation, in which a social-climbing bum (Robert Wagner) cadges an Onassis-style cruise of the Greek islands from Multimillionaire Peter Lawford and Daughter Jill St. John. Once aboard, he detects dead fish in Lawford's bullion and bumbles off in search of the source. Lest the implausibility of it all seem unimportant, all traces of wit, style, imagination, intelligence or any other compensation have been carefully expunged. So too in Doomsday Flight, in which it is revealed that a self-pitying psychopath (Edmond O'Brien) has placed a bomb aboard Captain Van Johnson...
...serving a holiday banquet, was there a pause in the exodus. One escapee even re-enacted a stunt from the Peter Sellers movie Two Way Stretch: he rode to freedom secreted in side a prison garbage truck, all the while desperately ducking the automatic arm that crushes the refuse. Lest would-be escapees lack so antic an imagination, the Mountbatten committee provided a few suggestions of its own. As it out lined weak points in the prison security system, it theorized about a whole range of potential escapes - from prisoners scooped up by low-flying helicopters to space-age techniques...
...play like angels." But some of the women think differently, grumble privately about the insulting way he bunches them all in the middle of the orchestra so they won't be seen. Boston's Erich Leinsdorf requires that auditioning musicians play for him behind a screen, lest his eyes influence his ears; prospective members are cautioned not to talk and to enter on tiptoe, so the telltale clicking of their heels will not give them away...
...Lest we forget...
...convention in Atlantic City, A. Philip Randolph, pioneering civil rights leader and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, indicted black power as a philosophy "based upon the assumption of salvation through racial isolation." Moreover, he warned Negro leaders to "take great care against overheating the ghettos" lest they precipitate "a race war in this nation which could become catastrophic...