Word: leste
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...Summer Games in 2001, China had lavished $44 billion on transforming the capital into a city whose time was now. Stadiums were built, entire transportation networks laid out. The areas that couldn't be prettified in time were hidden behind Olympic billboards that would have made Grigori Potemkin proud. Lest visitors think that China was somehow not sophisticated enough to merit hosting the world's premier sporting spectacle, local residents were admonished not to wear more than three contrasting hues at the same time. At a time of national glory, it just wouldn't do to have clashing colors...
...they will be treated lavishly by the Thai government on their return, which has promised a generous Olympic bonus of around $310,000 for a gold, $190,000 for a silver and $130,000 for a bronze. (The money will be doled out over a 20-year period, lest athletes blow their cash too quickly.) But for the athletes who don't win big, life will return to normal, sweating anonymously in sweltering gyms. Only the youngest can dream of another moment of glory four years from now at the London Games...
...They are evident to both advocates and opponents of arms control within the Administration. That is why the opponents, led by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Richard Perle, have been waging a fierce but largely invisible campaign to put the kibosh on the arms-control agreements of the past lest they provide the basis for new agreements in the future. Last month this faction won a major victory against Shultz and the State Department by persuading Reagan to declare his intent to end American compliance with the offensive limits of SALT II at the end of the year. The next...
...even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior to whites, especially in intellect, Twain's tale revolved in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master's baby and, concerned lest the child be sold South, switched him in the crib for the master's baby by his wife. The slave's light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slaveholding class. The master's wife's baby...
...long gone, is a standard treatment for strangulated hernias in these parts. "For all the years I've been working here," the orderly told my wife, "no patient's strangulated hernia has failed to repair itself on the road to the hospital." Still, they had to finish the journey lest the ambulance's trip be considered in vain. My wife and her mother returned home late in the afternoon by taxi - a kind of follow-up treatment...