Word: lest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert E. Lee who used his sharpshooters to pin down any movement on the battlefield, and Grant who pleaded with him for a chance to collect the wounded. Eleven years later, in 1875, when a new rebellion threatened to break out in Mississippi, Grant refused to commit federal troops lest a new war begin...
...East, a high U.S. official gave a background briefing to reporters aboard Secretary of State Alexander Haig's jet. The official who, of course, was quickly revealed to be Haig himself admitted that in the future he would have to be more careful in his anti-Soviet remarks, lest they give the Kremlin leaders an additional excuse to invade Poland. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott believes there are other dangers, too, that Haig should keep in mind. Talbott's analysis...
...Lest anyone miss the point, Alternate Delegate Richard Schifter, a Washington attorney, delivered a broadside against the Soviets. Invoking "the lessons of the Hitler era," he charged the Soviets with "thinly veiled antiSemitism" with its attacks on Zionism, and characterized the Soviet Union as a state whose "atheistic doctrine seeks to stamp out all creeds...
...school committee decided this week to keep the Haggerty school open for at lest one year...
...Lest anyone forget, the score at the half was Harvard, 24-16. Dartmouth shot 83 per cent from the field, and 86 per cent from the line. The only thing was, the Green only took six shots. Each team pulled down a grand total of three rebounds in the slow-motion first stanza...