Word: lest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge, a horde of fans descends on campus from the "Live Free or Die" state--and usually manage to reach remarkable heights of obnoxiousness during their short stay. While some Harvard undergraduates enter the fray, many know the best strategy for the Dartmouth weekend is to remain indoors, lest they be tagged by an errant beer bottle...
...their quest to seize the White House, the crusading Republicans last week forgot their differences. Bush didn't "want to be nickel-and-dimed to death by details" lest he be forced to remember his principles; Henry Kissinger suddenly forgot about detente and linkage and all those things he so slyly sculpted while Secretary of State; even Bush-haters from Texas and North Carolina reserved their judgement until after the election...
...down general guidelines at a meeting of Brazil's bishops this week. Last week he steadily strengthened the hand of Brazil's progressives, in effect trying to seize the initiative in social action from Marxist revolutionaries. But as in Mexico last year, he issued notes of caution lest Catholics be lured into concluding that ends excuse any means...
...national parties have little experience as promoters, since they only promote one race every four years. Curiously, it is in their interest not to have too good a race lest they lose to their rival in the special stakes race in November...
...cameras clearly showed that the ball landed well within the prescribed box, but, inexplicably, the serve was termed a fault. Young McEnroe (who but two years ago was Young Upstart McEnroe) struck the hallowed Centre Court grass with his racket and stormed to the sidelines, unwilling to continue lest the rest of his future efforts meet with similar results. At first, the man in the high chair tried reason; "Mr. McEnroe will resume play," he intoned. When that failed, he turned to humiliation. "This is a public warning," he informed Mr. McEnroe, right to his face and in front...