Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glanced around and found at least 20, perhaps 22 eyes glaring jealously at me. I drifted abashedly off into the crowd, and resolved to keep out of trouble, lest somebody ask for my credentials...
Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse showed up in the same neck of the woods-and led Dulles into one of the most unfortunate remarks of the hearings. Morse, wringing his hands lest "American boys might have to go over there alone," suggested that Britain and France join the U.S. in backing the Eisenhower Middle Eastern resolution. Dulles replied softly: "I hope, before you commit yourself to that proposition, you will give careful consideration to the reception the British and French could get in the Middle East." Then, half-joking and still referring to the low esteem in which...
...ultimate argument for the bills is, however, one that should come from the Senate itself. Popular pressure cannot determine the Senate's course, but it sometimes has made that body aware of a crisis, and in critical times the upper House has moved quickly, lest the deeply respected force of law be shattered. The Senate tries never to respond to popular whim, but to a continuing swell of sentiment it may react...
...Lest his dirge tend to merge with a purge...
...babies have the patience to hold off their wails till birth. Throughout history some restless infants were reported to have cried in the womb, but until relatively modern times doctors and midwives often thought it best not to publicize the fact lest they be accused of witchcraft. Last week in Britain's Lancet, a doctor described a latter-day occurrence of the phenomenon, known as vagitus uterinus (from the Latin vagire, to squall...