Word: lest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After taking stock, Amini made a sobering report to the nation. "There is no life left in the economic and financial agencies of the government," he declared. To the striking teachers, he confessed: "The treasury is empty, and the nation faces a crisis-I dare not speak more openly lest I create a panic." Then he went to the Shah, had Parliament dissolved, and got power to rule by decree. Teheranis demonstrated joyously and danced in the streets...
Matthew (7:6) must have had Mr. Kennedy in mind when he wrote: "Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend...
...Lest however, I be accused of conforming too much to the present, may I remind you of a certain Nazarene who organized his time so that most of his energies were spent in developing future leaders...
...even the newly offered stock of so solid a company as Ford dropped below its issuing price shortly after it came out 5 years ago-and stayed below it for 3 years. For such reasons, many Wall Streeters would like to see more done to curb the speculative fever, lest it bring on a painful shake-out that would harm thousands of small investors and, as in '29, give the Street a bad name that would take years to live down...
...moving sculpture of a black mother and child. Because of it he is surreptitiously taken to a white man's home-an action forbidden by law -and given a drink with the family. There, unspoken, he finds sympathy and even love, but hurriedly offered in the passageway lest they all sbe discovered. Almost more than any recent writing about South Africa, the story gives a glimpse of the fundamental decency that Paton insists is there below the official layer of hate...