Word: lest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fascination, the fulfillment, indeed the sheer exhilaration of standing hourly in the center of world affairs and trying to shape events are neglected in presidential literature. Most Presidents cannot describe their feelings; some are fearful lest such a confession make them seem power hungry, which is an occasional of at that level. Jerry Ford, perhaps the most modest and candid of the recent presidential crop, explained once while in power, "I can't wait to get to the office each morning to see what problems there are and try to do something about them...
November 15--Returning briefly to his official sphere as Dean, Watt issues a statement strongly urging that no new courses be added to the Core Curriculum, "lest this Core put out Leaves, and grow like a green thing...
...Britain's dour Field Marshal Douglas Haig in World War I who confessed he never went to the front lest the squalid horror of trench warfare diminish his will to send armies to their death, an act he thought not only necessary but inviolable...
...Lest there be any confusion, "serious" and "very serious cases," as defined in our classification involved repeated behaviors, persisting after a person's attempts to stop them; implicit or the attention; and significant personal and academic or professional upset. Every case so classified would almost certainly fall well within EEOC guidelines of what constitutes sexual harassment. Many of the other incidents, classified as less serious, would also fall within the legal guidelines...
...first to withhold applause for Israel's every aggressive move. However, the brilliance of his book is the reasoning behind it. On the surface, Oz's goals are simple and direct: Israel out of Lebanon, now. No more annexation, and full-scale peace with her neighbors. Lest his demands begin to sound like as Israeli version of the American anti-Vietnam sentiment of the 60s, Oz couches his goal in a sophisticated humanitarian vision...