Word: lest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ozmeni has another, more singular, reason for running: He likes going out in "those reflecting clothes which my wife insists I wear lest she be widowed. That's part of the fun, isn't it, wearing all that strange gear. It's like being part of a carnival or festival or something." He especially enjoys blinking his flashlight at oncoming cars to remind drivers to dim their headlights...
...seclusion and secrecy. Last week, however, 276 bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. were debating in the full glare of TV lights and under the gaze of an international press corps. A few years ago precedent would have dictated that division among the prelates be suppressed, lest the faithful be scandalized. But many of the bishops who assembled for the annual meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C., were openly wondering if their ideas were right for the church, or for the nation. And the document that the bishops debated, instead of being...
...these dazzling catalogues afford an index? Because, dear consumer, you will be forced to read them page by page, item by item, lest you miss the quintessential Christmas gift for Aunt Susie-or yourself. Big and small, plain and fancy, the catalogues skimmed randomly seem like an incantatory litany of affluence: bulletproof vests and see-through lingerie, blackout candles and Waterford chandeliers, buffalo steaks, Texas chili and Italian cheese, Taos Indian drums, underwater cameras, solid-fuel rockets, night-vision goggles, woks, socks, building blocks, coffee roasters, toasters, coasters, cashmere sweaters, G strings, food processors, wine vinegar, wine racks and wine...
Dartmouth students as well, while not necessarily politically conservative, have a healthy respect for tradition. Every Dartmouth student knows that in the second verse of "Men of Dartmouth," one shouts--not sings--the line "Lest the old traditions fail!" In addition, the Dartmouth, the daily student newspaper, is the most conservative in the Ivy League--meaning, of course, that it is solidly moderate...
...that free and open exchange with colleagues on all nationalities remains essential for technological progress. National security officials, 'who have often funded such work, have thought of foreign scientists less as colleagues than as agents for often hostile and imperialistic countries. These administrators often favored a withholding of findings lest they and the enemy...