Word: lest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This role is wonderfully defined by Alan Arbus, a resourceful comic actor Lest hopes be raised too high, however, let it quickly be added that Arbus is a supporting player in Law and Disorder, and that this scene is remarkable in a film that is otherwise filled with hollow horse-laughs about the hard lot of life in Manhattan. The two stars of the movie are Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine, who appear as a couple of working stiffs fighting back against the indignities of existence in a big city their children are molested, flashers approach their wives...
...pets, but can be found on human bodies. Fleas can also live in carpets and furniture, emerging to bite householders. Thus, suggest health officials, people who have flea problems should use a vacuum cleaner, carefully empty the contents into a plastic bag and then close it tightly, lest they recycle the fleas...
Valid Points. Lest anyone think that his new program meant that Wilson was a captive of the left, he severely rebuked three prominent leftists in his Cabinet for publicly disagreeing with the government's policy toward South Africa. If they could not support the government, he told them bluntly, they had one choice-to get out. As for the program itself, it remains to be seen how-and how fast-Wilson intends to carry out the program. In any case, as Heath quickly pointed out in the House of Commons, the government proposals are largely irrelevant to Britain...
Rita, naturally, falls in love with one of them. He is, naturally, a lout. But bad as he is, he makes Rita seem less listless and mousy. Margo vacillates between jealousy and the urge to tell Rita what favors she must grant lest she drive him off. Nellie seethes and tries not to notice. Nothing good can come of this, and nothing does...
...best of our new political thinkers will respond to the problems of concentrated wealth. As opportunities for unlimited wealth decrease, tax and economic policies must be used to leaven society lest it become two-class - the rich and all the rest...