Word: leste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dean of the "cowardly college of Communist containment." Two decades later, the New Nixon's policy of detente ran into a buzz saw of bipartisan anti-Soviet opposition. When a Watergate-wounded Nixon went to see Leonid Brezhnev in the Crimea in 1974, he refused to visit Yalta nearby, lest anyone accuse him of another giveaway. It was all for naught: the traveling White House press gleefully filed stories with the dread dateline...
...years it had stood as the symbol of the division of Europe and the world, of Communist suppression, of the xenophobia of a regime that had to lock its people in lest they be tempted by another, freer life -- the Berlin Wall, that hideous, 28-mile-long scar through the heart of a once proud European capital, not to mention the soul of a people. And then -- poof! -- it was gone. Not physically, at least yet, but gone as an effective barrier between East and West, opened in one unthinkable, stunning stroke to people it had kept apart for more...
...Lest we, as the "youth" he addresses, assume that Professor Blumenthal has emerged from the perfectly passionate, if otherwise imperfect 1960s with a ready quotation and an even readier generalization, or that Professor Blumenthal stands ready to receive the eucharist of a "devoted, consuming,...human" love, I suggest we understand what his argument represents...
...second year, the AT&T-sponsored Collegiate Investment Challenge will offer students a chance to lest their market prowess by trading stocks through a simulated brokerage firm. Given a fictional $500,000, the student with the most money after four months will win $25,000--in real cash...
...mile route. It plows across the vast prairies of Saskatchewan, where wheat and canola fields stretch from horizon to horizon. Then it is on to the Rockies, along ledges that would make an aerialist faint. It presses near the old Calamity Curve, through the Jaws of Death Gorge and, lest passengers have failed to get the message, into the Devil's Caldron...