Word: leste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...California fruit growers worried lest a large share of their 1943 crop go to waste in the fields for lack of 35,000 additional field hands...
...Faculty officers found himself cut in on by a student--naturally no one from his class. But all the students in the instructor's class were very careful to keep away from the officer who cut in lest they be linked, even indirectly, with the deed...
...dictatorial powers for maintaining the status quo will automatically expire. Congress, he hoped, will save him from Police Minister Aguilar, from President Arroyo del Rio and from confinement at Guaranda. Said he: "I did not pledge my word to return. . . . They even refused to clean my cell lest I should have someone to talk...
Unfortunately, the playing of the faculty was as colorful as the dress. As a result, after the ASOTS finished their first time at bat, it was decided by Colonel Conner that no score should be kept lest Statistician McNeil be compelled to leave the game and keep score on one of his beloved IBM machines. There were no individuals who could be cited for outstanding play; performance was uniformly good (or bad, depending on the point of view.) fray was softened by beer and cold perk. The beer was good; the food was good; and so it was decided...
Everywhere grey, genial Custodian Cook, veteran of seven inaugurations and countless special appearances, posted guards against bomb, crackpot or assassin. Two were even assigned to the great three-foot air ducts, lest somebody crawl in and loose poison gas to be swept into the House chamber through the vent over the Speaker's chair...