Word: lest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cong and the loyal South Vietnamese. When a large group of Vietnamese, carrying the caskets of 20 air-raid victims, approached the Marine defense zone around the base in a protest demonstration, confused Marine officers had to call in Vietnamese air-force police to help with the identification problem lest the marchers turned out to be V.C.s in disguise...
Judicial reform in New Hampshire has done away with the state's many little municipal courts. But Amherst Justice Charles L. Lincoln was worried lest the world forget the drama that took place in his courtroom. Thus, the highlights of 14 years are immortalized in his final report to the town...
...such is the verse form Author Toynbee has invented "after many experiments" to carry the narrative of his eighth novel, ostensibly the reminiscences of an old Anglo-Norwegian attempting in the year 1999 to recapture and finally comprehend the essence of a brother who died in 1936. Lest the reader fail to appreciate Toynbee's poetic virtuosity, Toynbee provides a pretentious introductory gloss that is almost a recipe. Take "first a very long and discursive line of anything between 25 and 35 syllables (but never either more or less), followed by two lines of five stressed syllables each...
...finish building it during the performance. Rather than leave Robert Kettleson (Count) standing agape when Robert Croog (Figars) is singing at him, he has him fall asleep--because of an all-night, we are informal. Thomas Weber (Bartolo) doesn't manage to get dressed until the final scene. And lest anyone suspect him of taking a production of Paisiello's Barber of Seville at all seriously, Schwartz throws in the usual sighs and winks and swaggers...
Should a soft breeze slip into the library and lure the scholar away, in 1959 Roger Conant Hatch established two prizes for lyric poetry. And, lest equality become too democratic at Harvard, in 1924 Carl Schurz provided a prize for a student meriting the Wilder Prize but not deserving the financial...