Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concierges of Neuilly's swank apartment houses proselytize domestic servants. In workers' districts party propaganda does not shy from argot, but Sorlin takes care that his organizers mind their grammar and diction, lest bourgeois members be offended...
...Fearful lest history's pudding smack too bitterly of the gall, wormwood and Bromo-Seltzer dropped into it by PM Editor Ralph Ingersoll's war report, Top Secret* (TIME, April 22), Correspondent Clifford last week began adding his own salty seasoning...
...Department of Justice, which must approve the sale, has opposed selling Geneva to Big Steel in the past, lest it mean less competition in the industry. But pressure from Western steel users, plus the fact that Big Steel's offer is regarded as a reasonable one for the plant, may cause it to Change its mind...
...Anger is the root of both righteousness and sin. . . . The proper attitude toward evil is anger. . . We must finally be reconciled with our foe, lest we both perish in the vicious circle of hatred.. . . We are called upon again & again to be executors of divine judgment. But in the ultimate sense [the word of St. Paul] is true: 'Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord...
...current big bull market has made the time again ripe for stock-splitting. So many corporations have done so, or plan to, that Emil Schram, the Stock Exchange's cautious, conservative president, last week spoke out. Worried lest such tactics bring down tighter governmental regulations, he warned against stock-splitting by corporations whose securities are temporarily high-priced, but which have no stable earnings record. The Exchange may refuse to list such split shares...