Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the turmoil that surrounds most government bodies. In the development of atomic energy for both military and peaceful purposes, the Commissions and controversy. Its five commissioners were to be chosen without regard to party and it was hoped that equal division of power would promote unanimity, or at lest harmony, in policy decisions...
...anguished uncertainty of an individual torn between the violent ecstasies of love and devotion to work retain a humble simplicity. Introspection leads only as far as instinct will allow it. For example, after Rence Nere (Colette) finds that she is in love again, she writes, "I tremble too much lest I should see rising, through the veil of the rain, a country garden, green and black, silvered by the rising moon which passes the shadow of a young girl dreamily winding her long plait around her wrist, like a caressing snake...
Business too has been quick to emphasis the value of the humanities in rounding out its future executives, and has gauged its recent financial contributions accordingly. While there is danger lest a sort of latter-day Babbitry rear its head out of such business support, industrial interest in itself hardly betokens a decline for the humanities...
Brewster was referring to a passage in the recent report of the Faculty Commitee on the Behavioral Studies which found "expressed concern on the part of some members of the faculty lest the present first-year curriculum be too narrow and too technical in its focus...
...always adjust himself and change his views." But most of the drys were unmoved. Nixon's letter, a Methodist Board of Temperance official felt, was "cocky." "It is the mind-set of a distillery general manager which matters," editorialized the respected Christian Century. The drys were particularly disturbed lest ex-Southern Comfortman King bring his wet influence to bear on legislation (e.g., the Langer bill, which would put restraints on TV and radio advertising of wine and beer; the liquor lobby's efforts to reduce taxes on distilled spirits...