Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood squarely behind the committee. Its O.A.S. envoy, veteran Careerman Paul C. Daniels, had vigorously put across the State Department's view that it was high time to end the wearisome game of cops & robbers in the Caribbean. The U.S., busy across the globe, was worried lest someone,' some day, might take advantage of a Caribbean quarrel, slip inside the hemisphere's back door, and use a l»cal spat in the American family to sow the seeds of Communism or fascism...
...last statement lies Agar's real assessment of the "price" of American union; the fact that we must sacrifice ideals for realities to stay alive and united. His book also shows that "obstruction, evasion, and well-nigh intolerable slowness" are also necessary concomitants of the American political system. But lest the conditions he adds a reminder that "no matter how high one puts the price of federal union, it is small compared to the price which other continents have paid for disunion, and for the little national states in which parties of principle can live (or more often...
...directive made it clear that Catholics were permitted to carry on conversations with Protestants only to inform them about Roman Catholic doctrine with the hope of eventually bringing them back to the "true faith." And in exercising their discretion, bishops are expressly warned to "be on their guard lest, under false pretenses such as ... stressing things on which we agree rather than those on which we disagree, a dangerous indifferentism be fomented. They must beware lest from a spirit of ... peace at all costs, Catholic tenets . . . are so whittled down and made to conform ... as to jeopardize the purity...
...cars pushed over the San Gabriel Mountains and into the Mojave Desert. They plunged into the 90° heat of Death Valley (some drivers sweltered with the windows up lest they cut down their streamlining), spiraled up again into Las Vegas for the night. Next day, a seven-hour drive sent them rolling across Hoover Dam, and then steadily uphill into below-freezing temperatures and snow at the finish line near the Grand Canyon...
Chief Alvin R. Randall of the University Police celebrated a modest birthday yesterday--that of the Lest and Found Bureau he operates. The bureau is a year old, and Chief Randall explained, as he unwrapped a misplaced checkbook that had been forwarded to his office, the business has been brisk, rewarding, and full of chuckles...