Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police to a dozen other child addicts (heroin as well as marijuana). In the lower Bronx, the dope users are classed by age as "seniors" (16-18 years), "juniors" (13-15), and "midgets" (11-12). They buy from peddlers who refuse to sell to anyone older than 18 lest he turn out to be a detective. ¶ Sweaters have been bursting into flame all over the country. The phenomenon began about a month ago in Los Angeles when an auto driver's sweater took fire as he lit a cigarette. By last week a score of similar cases...
...usual, Bob thanked the Lord when he got the Sullivan Trophy. But lest someone regard him as stuffily sanctimonious, he added: "I don't imply that God is any metaphysical demon hiding behind the nearest cloud, waiting to clutch at me and lift me over the crossbar ... I mean psychological influence, which He exerts over all those who can search their souls and find there the strength to perform wonderful things...
...Lest anyone think that a teacher can be ''bribed" by the gifts she receives from her pupils at Christmas, a sixth-grade teacher in New Castle, Ind. reported the following Yuletide take to the Kansas City Times: six pieces of double-bubble chewing gum, one bottle of Night in Bagdad perfume, three pictures of Actor Lash Larue, two rolls of mints, a loaded cigar, a Dewey-for-President badge. ¶ Gift of the week: the 30-room Southampton, N.Y. mansion of Manhattan Stockbroker Charles E. Merrill to his alma mater Amherst College. Amherst's plan...
...look over the group of "academic gentlemen," now so disturbed lest "academic freedom" be endangered, I note some who have not been very conspicuous in the defense of Constitutional Government upon which that freedom depends, but who have shown considerable sympathy with those ideologies, which, if they succeed in destroying Constitutional Government will immediately abolish, as has been amply demonstrated by their actions is those countries, where they have got the upper hand, all freedom, including academic freedom. G. Andrews Morlarty...
...Franco government had screened and selected all candidates. Voters (i.e., heads of families) were not even free to stay away from the rigged poll. Lest the people express disapproval by abstaining, the government reminded them of an old electoral law: whoever fails to fulfill his duty to vote is liable to such penalties as a raise in his taxes, a cut in his salary-even disqualification for life from public office. Another, even more compelling, warning was given on the radio: those who fail to vote risk loss of the two most treasured documents that Spaniards possess: food and tobacco...