Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willie Pep, decided the judges, had won his return engagement, become the first featherweight in history to win back his crown undisputedly after losing it. Hartford folks who bet their shirts on him won a small fortune from the big-city slickers. Mumbled battered Willie, who had been worried lest somebody might have thought he gave up too quickly last October: "I had to prove the last one was no phony...
...Father, let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen . . . Give us the courage . . . to stand for something, lest we fall for anything . . . Amen...
...Senators, who have their moments of ringing and hollow oratory, came to find Peter Marshall's prayers plain and pertinent. Once he prayed: "When we do not know what to say, keep us quiet." Another time he said: "Save us from the sin of worrying, lest stomach ulcers be the badge of our lack of faith...
Announcement of his departure stalled the University's negotiations with Metro Goldwyn-Mayer for production of "Murder at Harvard" at lest until a successor is installed...
...clinics and psychiatrists in the nation can only make children "a little better able to take care of themselves ... a little better able to live usefully and generously ... a little better able to care for the children they will have, than their parents were to care for them-lest the generations of those maimed in childhood, each making the next in its own image, create upon the darkness, like mirrors locked face to face, an infinite corridor of despair...