Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mediation committee of Long Island's Suffolk County Medical Society announced after a three-hour session that because Dr. Kris had been under a "mistaken impression" regarding "the limits of the family's ability to pay," there would be no bill for the Hoopers. However, lest a dangerous precedent be set, the committee took pains to note: "Any doctor has the right to render a bill for his service...
...Lest it somehow be dimmed by unexpected reform, the U.P.'s reputation for pinching the penny is affectionately kept alive by an ever-expanding organization of U.P. alumni called The Downhold Club -an echo of the constant warnings to "downhold" expenses that emanate from U.P.'s headquarters in the New York Daily News building...
When word leaked out last week, the contract jumpers were promptly cut from the Builders' roster. But Manager Kromer had no apologies for his bonuses. He had no fancy ballyard, he said; how else could he lure players? His words went unheeded. Fearful lest the youngsters be embarrassed by the publicity, local papers kept their names out of stories of the scandal. One of the boys is already back in a Jet uniform thanks to his father's appeal to the league's board of governors. The other, unfortunately, has yet to report back and apologize...
...General Stefanos Sarafis, a member of Parliament and World War II guerrilla hero, and injuring his wife Marion. On orders from U.S. Ambassador George Allen, the airman was handed over immediately to Greek authorities, who charged him with negligent manslaughter, and said he had been drinking and speeding. Apprehensive lest there be a repetition of last fortnight's riots in Taipei, Greek authorities called out police to surround the U.S. embassy and the cathedral where General Sarafis' body lay in state. Thanks to Ambassador Allen's quick action, there were no anti-American demonstrations...
...recorded conversation of Miller's children ("You were a thief, weren't you, Dad?" "Well, yes and no. I was a horse thief"). And it should be recorded that the old scourge of the Left Bank weeps when he misses his children and hides marbles lest they swallow them...