Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skepticism: "I can't say that I entertain great hopes from these conversations, but one can never tell." In Washington, Dean Acheson echoed the U.S. Assembly delegate. Until Russia's attitude changed, observed the Secretary of State, the West must continue to build up its strength, lest weakness tempt Communist aggression...
...nose close to his drawing board, his eye on production. He likes to pad around the huge war-surplus plant on the edge of Lambert-St. Louis field, uses a public-address system to tell his 6,500 employees about new orders as soon as they come in. Lest they think that he is overpaid, he reminded them in his last annual report that his own salary (after taxes) is only "equal to the wages ... of ten unskilled laborers...
...them, even in the universities, work on secret projects for the armed services or the Atomic Energy Commission. Armed men guard the doors; visitors must be "cleared" and identified with badges. Many potential users of peaceful aspects of nuclear energy hesitate to take their problems to the guarded laboratories lest they get entangled in restriction...
...anxious to urge any one use for this money over all others; we are simply concerned lest precious funds be used for a purpose which we consider to be of little overall value to the University and peripheral to the main purposes for which Harvard exists...
...flutes and drinking cups down the 33 wells (where Professor Broneer found them more than 2,000 years later). But the riotous spirit of Corinth survived. In 60 A.D., St. Paul reproved his little flock at Corinth (II Corinthians 12:20, 21): "For I fear," wrote St. Paul wearily, "lest, when I come . . . I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed...