Word: lest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation of mice. We dress and behave with timid circumspection. Good taste is the worst vice ever invented." The name is the same, and "obviously it is going to help," said Attorney General Robert Kennedy, 36, of brother Teddy's run for a Massachusetts senate nomination. But lest his 30-year-old little brother count too much on family connections, Bobby managed to raise the homely political platitude to new frontiers of obvious ness: "If he doesn't have the stuff him self, if he won't go out and work, if he doesn't know...
...early age. Wolf puppies that have less contact with people are likely to turn savage when they grow up. Most of Dr. Ginsburg's wolves are uncannily bright. They have learned to work switches and faucets; their cages must be fitted with locks operated from outside lest they unfasten the inside latches and roam the lab building...
...Lest one good custom should corrupt the world...
...threatening and patronizing statement," tossed back at the Jesuits a paraphrase of their own question: "What would be the Catholic reaction if a Jewish publication were to publish an editorial entitled 'To Our Catholic Friends,' warning Catholics to cease their campaign for public aid to parochial schools, lest a wave of anti-Catholic bigotry descend on the nation...
...translators are also trying to weed out what Driver calls "nonsense" caused by faulty reading of the manuscripts. In Psalm 2, for example, "Tremble before him and kiss his feet in homage" will replace a serious misinterpretation in the King James Version: "Rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, lest he be angry." Job's picturesque "If I wash myself with snow water" becomes the prosaic "If I wash myself with soap," on the ground that snow water has no extra-special cleaning power. Until the scholars can think of a better word for it, Miriam's leprosy...