Word: lest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aware that they stood a good chance of being captured, Taylor and Gardiner wore their uniforms lest they be shot as spies. The two men transferred from a British PT boat to an Italian corvette and were put ashore in the port of Gaeta. They made the 75-mile trip to Rome in an Italian truck, stayed back of the enemy lines for two days, discovered that Badoglio could not give the necessary support to a landing, called off the attack by radio and were flown out to Tunis in an Italian plane. Eisenhower later wrote of Taylor: "The risks...
...Lest your readers think all National Guard summer encampments are similar to that of the Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th Fighter Group, I suggest that you visit my unit at Camp Curtis Guild, Reading, Mass...
...undertake the most tiresome chore of fittings, hairdressers, etc. Selecting something "off the rack" and pin-curling her hair before retiring would have been less bothersome. Regarding her purchase of a French costume, it was a fine diplomatic gesture toward an ally who has proved most difficult. And lest we forget, Jackie's clothes did not make her; she enhanced them...
...religion cannot illuminate these three dark areas of modern life, said Dean Miller, "it should then in decency get out of the way so that men will not be tripped up by its frumpery or fooled by its solemnity. There is serious work to be done, lest the world descend into darkness deeper than we have ever known before...
...divided into 80 zones, and dozens of Murchisonians were sent to canvass Alleghany shareholders in each area. An IBM computer kept a running count of the committed proxies; each scrap of paper that might offer a clue to the Murchison's strength or strategy was burned lest it fall into enemy hands. So zealous were Murchison solicitors that even after the final voting began at the Alleghany annual meeting in Baltimore, they were searching ashtrays for torn-up Kirby ballots that might give a lead to a disaffected shareholder whom they might convert. Says John Murchison...