Word: lest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...garage, and Joe has a machine for each space?a souped-up Corvette, a golden Coupe deVille, a 1934 Chevrolet, a Cadillac limousine, a Chevy station wagon and a $4,700 Harley-Davidson motorcycle that he guns down country roads at upwards of 100 m.p.h. (lest something happen to their prize property, Cloverlay has declared the cycle off limits until after the fight). When not tinkering with his cars, Joe is scratching at his guitar. As the lead singer in his own touring bluesy rock band called, naturally, the Knockouts, he sees music as his future after he retires from...
...first of four crucial team matches Saturday, Peter Briggs lest to Berry, 15-5, 15-13, 7-15, 15-9. Berry Played an unbelievable first game to win easily, but Briggs came back to be on top of the game at the three-game break. After the intermission, however. Briggs let Berry control the center of the court. Positioning himself behind his opponent, Briggs left himself on the defensive and eventually lest...
Harvard also has the material to win, but it has lest, one advantage. Fish felt he beat Berry because Berry was not "ready to play tough and tried to routine me," "Now that I've won a few. I'll lose the element of surprise," Fish said...
State of Limbo. The kidnaping, like the recent bombings, is thought to have been the work of a Maoist guerrilla group known as Dev-genc (a Turkish acronym for "revolutionary youth movement"). Premier Süleyman Demirel has been reluctant to deal harshly with terrorists, lest he acquire the reputation for repression that brought down Premier Adnan Menderes and led to his hanging. Nevertheless, last week Demirel asked parliament to widen his government's powers to control the violence...
...gulf states, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, which have not yet settled on a price for that part of their oil production that reaches the Mediterranean by pipeline. Some major oil companies avow that they will shut down their Libyan production rather than accede to leapfrog demands, lest this cause the painful Teheran pact to come unstuck...