Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reynolds explained that a deficit in the housing budget must be avoided at all costs lest it put a drain on the educational funds of the College. Provost Buck said a week ago that he is preparing to take a $600,000 to $700,000 deficit in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a result of lower enrollment. This planning depends on successful financing in other departments of the University...
...Socialist government, for instance, does not conceal a certain sympathy for what Prime Minister Attlee calls "the new emerging [i.e., Red] China." From Winston Churchill down, Britons naturally put Europe's security first, fear lest American strength be deflected from the defense of Europe against Communism to a defense of Asia against Communism. Nor do Britons want their commercial stake in the Far East disrupted by war or even sanctions against Red China. James Griffiths told the House of Commons last week that British trade in Southeast Asia was booming: during the first six months of the Korean...
...examine the whole thorny question of subversion and loyalty in a free society. Said the President: "We must be sure that our laws and procedures at home are adequate...to preserve our national security against treason, espionage, sabotage and other subversive acts...At the same time, we are concerned lest the measures taken to protect us from these dangers infringe the liberties guaranteed by our Constitution and stifle the atmosphere of freedom...
...divisions would not be enough to help much in Europe and on the other that they might be formidable enough to be provocation for war? "Senator Taft's evident belief . . . is equivalent to saying that the weak must not strengthen themselves relative to the strong lest the strong should take alarm. But this condemns the weak to continue in a state of inferiority to the strong and means that they exist only on the sufferance of the powerful...
Some Soviet scientists might be reassured. Others would continue to watch their instruments suspiciously lest heretical ideas creep out of them...