Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes though it has to be available to a limited number of scholars in the field, to set them straight, lest they criticize the poor thesis writer for drawing conclusions from information which they themselves do not have. This is what "restricted use" means...
...arguments for eliminating the junior class elections? One is that there are too many juniors and seniors on the Council already--most of the appointed members are upperclassmen--and that eliminating two juniors would redress the balance. Another is that the Council's total membership should not be increased lest it become unwieldy. But the necessity of leaving open channels by which experienced men can be re-elected far outweighs the other considerations. The Council needs more such members, and it should not hesitate to expand itself to get them...
...great city is the center of the Flight ... It is built like a fortress against the heavens . . . The houses stick to the ground by means of asphalt lest they should sink into the earth when the heavens thrust against them. From roof to roof the wires stretch like barbed-wire entanglements. Now the streets are mere crevasses between the houses, emergency exits for those who flee. But in many places they are broad. These are the ways of advance prepared for the attack against the heavens. And the factory chimneys are like the barrels of guns...
Atomic Bombing. Britons, who have voiced concern lest a headstrong U.S. use its air bases in England for atomic bomb flights against Russia, were pleased by a Truman pledge: the U.S. will not use the bases for A-bombings without consultation and approval by the British...
France fights a colonial war, that overt help to her should be avoided lest it dismay the Indians, the Burmese and the, Indonesians. The French wanted a definite U.S. promise of armed forces for IndoChina-sea and air support, not ground troops-in the event the Chinese invaded. Without such a commitment, the French argued Indo-China would fall to the Communists, and so, in a matter of time, would British Malaya, Burma, Siam and probably Indonesia...