Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lest he miss opportunity, Rentschler scans five newspapers daily, reads aviation magazines and technical papers tirelessly, greets friends by saying: "What do you know?" They have long since learned that this means: "Do you know any new developments affecting my business?" When any conversation strays far from engines Rentschler's eyes glaze over, and he stops listening. Wherever his men travel, he expects them to send him constant memos on anything they hear. If one hears an admiral say, "The Navy needs more engine power," Rentschler wants the dope by wire...
Then Fields read a magazine article about the laryngoscope, a device like a shoehorn with a built-in light for looking down people's windpipes. This was for him. Lest he be accused of "practicing medicine" without a license, Fields got advance approval from the Omaha-Douglas County Medical Society. He and his crews took a hospital course in use of the laryngoscope, and Fields talked an insurance company into donating two of the $65 gadgets...
Williams is concerned lest an international incident develop and is determine to locate the skeleton...
...recommended that the United States begin to help India in a spirit of philanthropy rather than one of policy. India does not yet understand democracy and must be helped to do so lest Reds gain control, Straight added...
...view . . . ; thus these sports pages will not carry points and selections." The World-Telegram and Sun also dropped points and selections, and sports editors as far from the crime as the Kansas City Star and the Nashville Tennessean announced they would give only local basketball scores over the telephone, lest gamblers be aided. The Milwaukee Journal stopped giving...