Word: lest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions in this year's Harvard attack, and too many returning answers from the arsenals of the other seven Ivy clubs. Keep in mind, though, that as bad as any Harvard team can be, it will always be better than at least four other teams in the league. So, lest we be called for Delay of Column, here is The Crimson's 1978 Ivy League Football forecast...
...publicly criticized Sadat, saying that it was "very disappointed" by his action. The Israelis gloated that Sadat's moves showed that it was he and not Begin who was blocking a peace. The Administration disagreed. But it also worried lest the deadlock make Sadat and other Arab moderates vulnerable to radical demands for action; it is even possible that the Egyptian might be toppled or killed. And so Carter decided to gamble on a summit. Explains a top State Department aide: "We had to keep the momentum going to keep the moderates...
...Soviet protest to Bucharest, which for all its friendliness to Peking still has important military, economic and political ties to the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, with maliciously anti-Soviet timing, Hua touched down at the airport outside the Yugoslav capital on the tenth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Lest anyone fail to get his point, he made it clear that night. At a state dinner given by Yugoslavia's venerable Field Marshal Josip Broz Tito, 86, Hua alluded to fears that Moscow might try to intervene after Tito's death. "Yugoslavia," warned Hua, "is ready...
...some of the material would be flung back out at much greater speed. This material could be caught and its extra energy harnessed, like rushing water, to power the civilization. The only hitch: the engineers would have to be careful not to "feed" the black hole too much garbage, lest its event horizon expand and swallow up the whole civilization...
...week the dollar came under a concentrated cannonade from some financial Guns of August, and its steady, summer-long retreat turned into a disorderly rout. It fell 4½% against the Swiss franc in a single day, while the price of gold, the ultimate refuge for investors worried lest their dollars become worth much less, hit an unheard-of $215.90 an ounce. So the White House passed the word that President Carter was "deeply concerned" and had asked Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller for advice on what he could do to stop...