Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began speculating happily that a 2.1% increase, if extended countrywide, would mean a Tory majority of 100 seats at a general election this fall. Such a majority, they reasoned, would let them slip away for dinner parties and evenings in West End theaters instead of being always on call, lest Labor outpoll the government on a snap vote...
Greene objected on grounds of "taste," and suggested that the Society abandon its plans "lest questions of propriety should be raised." The Reed Society hit back in a formal reply, "It had been our understanding that the selection of speakers for undergraduate organizations was not one of Mr. Greene's duties," they said...
...today, alas! when we approach the chicken coop and ask: "Who's there?", the customary answer is: "I decline to say, under the Fifth Amendment, lest I incriminate myself." In the old days the forthright reply used to be: "Dere's nobody here but us chickens!" Kenneth D. Robertson...
...world, eh? Godmudder used to say: 'Tek heed he dat stand lest he falleth' . . . Godmudder was a wise woman...
...most of the laggard categories industry is being deliberately cautious. Some of the items, such as copper and lead, are not in short supply now. In fact, prices are dropping because of heavy supplies pouring in from abroad. Thus, though it may be vital to expand domestic production capacity lest foreign supplies be cut off in time of war, there is little incentive to do so. Other industries that have expanded, such as newsprint and steel, know that there is a good civilian market waiting for them, defense orders or no. But producers of such materials as titanium, still dangerously...