Word: lest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across the Board. That cost-of-living squeeze last week moved President Johnson to exhort business and labor to keep prices and wage boosts within "reasonable bounds," lest the Government feel forced "to take other measures." What these measures might be, Johnson did not say, though higher taxes (after the November elections) are the most obvious possibility. The President also ordered Health, Education and Welfare Department Secretary John W. Gardner to investigate spiraling medical costs, which have jumped 3.4% in just six months. The cost of hospital care has been going up swiftly, and now stands...
...notes are somewhat less militant in tone than most Russian references to Scripture. Editor Zenon Kosi-movsky, surprisingly enough, concedes that many of the passages of the Bible have been authenticated by historical evidence and that David may have been a real person who wrote some of the Psalms. Lest readers be carried away by such admissions, Alexander Osipov, an ex-priest turned unbeliever, warns in a critical epilogue against taking the Bible seriously as a historical document. None of this discouraging propaganda, however, had much effect on religious Russians, most of whom have had to rely on Bibles printed...
...that melancholy despair which we see in many wedded persons, though they understand it not, or pretend other causes because they know no remedy; and is of extreme danger. Therefore when human frailty surcharged is at such a loss, charity ought to venture much and use bold physic, lest an over-tossed faith endanger to shipwreck...
...would strain the nation's short supply of doctors, nurses and hospital beds. On the other hand, Dr. Edwin Crosby, director of the American Hospital Association, saw U.S. hospitals as easily able to absorb the influx of Medicare patients. And most Government authorities agreed. But they also worried lest the A.M.A.'s stand add unnecessarily to the headaches of making Medicare work...
...they played up her sex appeal and styled her vocal treatments after Lillian Russell; with Teresa Brewer, they provided "lots of saloon songs arranged as if they were done 30 years ago." They teach their singers how and where to walk (glide, but never too close to the tables lest someone see sweat or telltale wrinkles), give them mildly risque parodies of such standards as Let's Do It and breezy between-song patter (says Duddy: "Most singers should not be allowed to ad-lib hello...