Word: leste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lest delegates sought to quench their thirst in a more frugal manner, the friendly organizers at the Garden had taken care of that too: All of the water fountains in the arena were conveniently running dry. This proved a problem for the medical team in section 66, members of which complained that dehydrated delegates had needed treatment at the First Aid station, along with a few “elderly delegates who had drank too much.” Easy, cowboy...
...what end? So much promise, to no great purpose." Clinton returned fire at the Democratic Convention in Boston last month. "Strength and wisdom," he declared, "are not opposing values." That was his delicate version of the venomous bumper sticker: BUSH: LIKE A ROCK, ONLY DUMBER. But lest John Kerry get smug, Clinton is the guy who warned his fellow Democrats in December 2002 that voters in dangerous times may prefer a candidate who is strong and wrong to one who is weak and right...
...Lest delegates sought to quench their thirst in a more frugal manner, the friendly organizers at the Garden had taken care of that too: All of the water fountains in the arena were conveniently running dry. This proved a problem for the medical team in section 66, members of which complained that dehydrated delegates had needed treatment at the First Aid station, along with a few “elderly delegates who had drank too much.” Easy, cowboy...
...superheroes kept the medium alive while simultaneously stigmatizing it as a children's entertainment. Beginning with the first generation of "underground" comix artists, most cartoonists interested in exploring the artistic possibilities of the medium have treated superheroes like a form of radiation - an invisible energy best left ignored lest you get seriously burned. Recently that prejudice has been eroding as more and more alty comix artists work on superhero projects for Marvel or DC. Now we have one of America's top comix artists, Dan Clowes, exploring the form and meaning of the concept with his very own superhero...
Those subjects emanated from throughout Britain’s imperial sphere, which (lest anyone forgets) once enveloped one-quarter of the world’s population. And in Dar es Salaam nowadays, the families of those one-time colonial mandarins are still taking care of a number of African states, although no longer affixed with the government’s imprimatur. The Indians brought on railway construction contracts by the Brits are today firmly in control of Tanzania’s economy—those parts, at least, not controlled by middling and bent civil servants. They run the mining...