Word: lest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice of getting someone to join a party by telling him someone else is coming in. The need for secrecy was so important that in the midst of negotiations, Roosa even donned a tuxedo in the office and went off to a scheduled piano recital at the Polish embassy lest anyone suspect by his absence what was afoot. He kept a car waiting outside with its motor running, just in case...
...final draft. "Let's not stand here talking," snapped Bishop Francis Reh, head of the North American College in Rome. "Who has some paper?" A group of prelates quickly drafted a petition to the Pope that "urgently, very urgently and most urgently" requested him to overrule the presidents, "lest the confidence of the world, both Christian and nonChristian, be lost." Within 90 minutes, American and Canadian bishops had rounded up more than 800 signatures for the petition...
...along is an elusive something called the "Nashville Sound." More than the drawling, sowbelly accents and nasal intonations of the singers, it is the background music provided by the sidemen on twangy electric guitars. They are a small, seasoned corps whose musical prowess is more heart than art. Few, lest it cramp their style, have had formal training. In fact, they tend to pride themselves on their inability to read music, "and the few who can," says RCA Victor Executive Steve Sholes, "don't let it interfere with their performance...
Robert Kennedy has much working for him. His name alone commands enthusiasm and awe, and like his late brother he is young, handsome, and articulate. In addition, lest anyone forget, he came to New York, where he had not lived for almost twenty years, and defeated a man who had served New York in Congress for eightteen...
Responsibility & Accountability. Yet, lest anyone think that that situation had deteriorated under his Administration, he also gave assurances. He talked for 45 minutes with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, posed for pictures smiling and shaking hands, received vows that the new Soviet government would continue to seek peaceful coexistence. The President also let it be known that he had told Dobrynin that the U.S. would maintain its strength, even while trying to be considerate of the views of others. He reminded the Russian ambassador that it is "one thing to tell a man to go to hell, and another thing...