Word: lest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worthwhile. It is a convenient, comfortable oval that accommodates 80,000 (including 33,000 standees) within "human dimensions"; promoters boast that the maximum distance between spectator and competitor is only 212 yards. A javelin throw away is the swimming stadium, which is built with 80% of its structure underground lest it appear too imposing. A kind of super sunken bath, it has five pools on two levels, and amenities like a glass-enclosed express elevator to the high-diving platform. Over a nearby ridge is the cycle stadium, a space-age affair that looks as if it could land...
...that the real reason? Italians suspected that the French President did not want to come to Rome lest he appear to be paying court to his hosts-a posture that would obviously be unacceptable for a man with Pompidou's ambition to be Europe's primus inter pares. Nevertheless, Leone and Andreotti did manage to come up with a sort of movable Chequers that brought Pompidou to three handsome villas in the Tuscan hills near Pisa-one for a lunch with Leone, one for the "friendly and private talks," and one for a night's lodging. Pompidou...
Fischer's idea of a big evening is secluding himself in a hotel room and ?slam! crash! chop!?working out a new king's side attack. He always requests a room without a view lest he be distracted from the game. If he ventures out, he always takes his trusty leather pocket set with him. On elevators, in taxis, between dinner courses?he is always at it, busily fiddling away like some old crone at her knitting. "Why should I bother with anything else?" he asks. "Chess is my profession...
...sailors who started in the singlehanded transatlantic sailboat race a month ago, most were still alone, all alone last week, somewhere on the wide, wide sea between Plymouth, England, and Newport, R.I. They were still battling cold and cramp, waves and weariness; still leary of sleep lest their untended craft be run down by a freighter or collide with an iceberg. They were still in danger of drifting aimlessly with broken equipment, or of being swept overboard with no help near...
...ahead with that plan they'll turn the Soviet Union into a large lake.' " Both sides already have the capability to carve out several large lakes. The massive commitment to offensive weapons is such that for the present each side must continually upgrade its deterrents lest the other gain a first-strike capability-the ability to strike so quickly and so powerfully as to wipe out any chance of a retaliatory attack...