Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ERNEST Bevin would often remark that his one nightmare was lest the Americans should once again fall for the Russian bait [of appeasement]. "If the two of them gang up, there will be nothing left for anyone else." This may prove to be the broad outline of Geneva. Americans and Russians find it easy to jettison one set of principles and try another. British politicians, particularly British Socialists, are not so adaptable. Yet, if we read the meaning of Geneva aright, the feat must be undertaken...
...farmers appreciate your fine July 4 article, ''Automation on the Farm." However, lest the urban public think that farming has become a soft, push-button operation, let me emphasize that today's farmers work as hard as their forebears, and under much more tension, to keep the expensive machinery and larger herds producing...
...that point he noticed a couple of small avalanches break off to one side. After talking it over, the boys decided to start back down. Suddenly apprehensive, they slipknotted themselves onto a length of quarter-inch Manila line. It was another error-mountaineers never use slip knots, lest the ropes tighten around their midriffs...
...present," said Dr. Kelley, "our general approach is opposed to the totalitarian pattern and emphasizes freedom of speech, lack of obsessive rituals and minimal demands on behavior. We have been overenthusiastic in our refusal to teach control lest we traumatize ... I should like to suggest that the foundations of democracy can be achieved even while total freedom of behavior may be curtailed. The ideal solution would be neither too much nor too little training suppression. Since nobody knows how much is too much, if we err, let it be on the side of potential neuroses. [Perhaps thus we can] make...
...William Shakespeare write the works of William Shakespeare? Charles Dickens was positively jumpy about the problem: "The life of William Shakespeare is a fine mystery," he wrote, "and I tremble every day lest something should turn up." Among those who have gone further and insisted that William Shakespeare was a mere pen name are men as different as Mark Twain (a whole-hog Baconian), Sigmund Freud (he rooted for the Earl of Oxford), Bismarck, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1931, Britain's Gilbert Slater caused a flutter by declaring that Shakespeare was a seven-man syndicate consisting...