Word: lest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nordness went about his work, other dealers began to speculate about just what he was up to. Since Johnson wanted to conceal his name lest prices soar, Nordness had put it out that he was buying...
Association. A Kennedy-appointed fact-finding commission last October suggested in effect that the jobs of third pilot and flight engineer be combined. The President requested that the issue be submitted to binding arbitration, and the airlines agreed. But the flight engineers, fearful lest they be swallowed up by the bigger (14,000 member) and better organized Pilots Association, refused...
...Lest Kennedy forget-stockholders can vote when election time rolls around...
Night & Day. Kassem's military tactics against the Kurds have been almost totally ineffective. Because one-third of his soldiers are of Kurdish origin, Kassem is afraid to send some units against the rebels, never gives his forces more than two days' supplies and ammunition, lest they turn on him. As in most guerrilla wars, the army controls the roads, particularly during the day, while the Kurds control the countryside, especially at night. The army rumbles up and down with its Soviet armor, smashing rebel roadblocks, while the Kurds move swiftly cross-country in small bands, armed mostly...
...hubbub was an Italian law prohibiting tobacco advertising entirely. Though Italy's cynical citizens assumed that the law was meant to protect the cigarettes produced by the state tobacco monopoly against competition from imported cigarettes (whose sales depend much more heavily on advertising), U.S. tobaccomen began to worry lest the U.S. Government take a cue from Britain and Italy. They found scant comfort in news that the U.S. Public Health Service has just decided to set up a panel to study the relationship between smoking and cancer...