Word: lest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently handed town officials a check for $1,000 in token payment for services rendered. In Boston the Christian Scientists pay city taxes on all their properties except the Mother Church itself. In sum, the churches seem ready to render unto Caesar at least a little of his due-lest Caesar ask for even more...
...coup, covert or overt, internal or external. There was no "ousting." My resignation was of my own volition. I made that decision in order to launch a literacy campaign under auspices of the Center for Community Action Education to supplement the fight waged by the civil rights movement, lest, when equal opportunity is won, we find that many are unable to enjoy their new freedom. At my request CORE set up a committee, on which I served, to screen candidates for the post I was relinquishing. Mr. McKissick, a longtime personal friend, was the candidate who had my support...
...AGGRESSION: "When aggression stalks either a community or the world, resistance to it is both necessary and noble, lest it become all-pervasive. And it is well that it should be checked in its early days before it can acquire the cumulative momentum of success."-Senator Paul Douglas at Amherst...
...Lest all the adulation turn their heads, Bolshoi Choreographer Yuri Grigorovich is carefully guarding the careers of his two prize youngsters. Says he: "Yuri and Natalia are still developing, still rounding off the angles. At this stage, it is difficult to see them clearly, but one thing is certain: there is no ceiling in sight...
...CRIMSON should have suggested that we wait until we see the Chinese threat more clearly lest we pointlessly stir up a U.S. Soviet competition that may be less easily aroused, one can hope in later years. Jeremy J. Stone