Word: lest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman. I am Black. I will most likely be an English major. Very well. Does that exclude me from most of Kilson's catagories? I am sure that this Booker T. Washington is so worried lest others learn something of their cultural heritage has learned all he cares to about his people (and he is one of our people, no matter how much he tries to obliterate the fact), but will he at least give credence to those of us expressing a desire to learn more? He seems intent upon destroying the Afro-American department...
...gunfire at the cardplayers, killing Sheik Karume instantly. Karume's bodyguard shot one of the attackers dead, and the driver of one car was captured; the others escaped. Throughout the night, troops combed the island's clove and coconut plantations, and gunboats patrolled the coral-reef waters lest the assassins should try to reach the mainland by dhow or dugout...
Meanwhile, take a look. It's nice outside. At lest it's better than it has been...
...autos or to submit to a search. As a test of the new East German attitude, one driver openly displayed copies of a West German military magazine and a Hamburg sex tabloid on the front seat of his car. In the past, Western publications were confiscated lest they contaminate East German minds. This time, however, an East German guard simply shrugged...
...most often been presented as nothing more than a contest between the strong and the weak, the bisexual, double-sexed as he is assumed to be, is especially dangerous; he is thought to be driven by unquenchable passions and all are expected to keep out of his sight lest they should submit to his power. Cabaret only confirms such a stereotype--throwing in parallel suggestions of political corruption for damning good measure...