Word: lesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lest the world forget a threat to peace that predates Suez-and probably will outlive it-shooting broke out again last week across Israel's borders. Late one morning Jordan National Guardsmen jumped 30 Israeli troops carrying out a map-reading exercise on the Hebron border and killed six. Next night an Israeli raiding party laid an ambush for probable reinforcements, then blew up a police fort on the Jordan side, killing twelve. Seven more Jordanians died when the Land Rovers in which they were hurrying to the scene drove into the Israeli ambush...
Wasn't his new Republicanism a reversal of old Republicanism that opposed New Deal legislation? "The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good. I believe it was Tennyson that said: 'The old order changeth and giveth place to new lest one good custom should corrupt the earth.'* We have gotten into the type of civilization now where the Government must interest itself more in the old age security, in unemployment insurance, and all that sort of thing . . . I believe in it, I stand for it, and I don't care...
...Presbyterian, he attends weekly services, teaches a ninth-grade Sunday-school class, has a picture of Jesus on his office wall. He worries lest his religious zeal be taken for political haymaking, guards against that possibility by extreme measures; e.g., he slips out of a service during the benediction to avoid church-step handshaking, insists that he be known to his Sunday-school class as Mr. (not Governor) Langlie. He neither smokes nor drinks, but is undisturbed if others do. In his eyes the ultimate evil is immorality, especially in politics. Says a longtime friend: "If there is an unavoidable...
...Lest the American League be overlooked, Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams walloped his 400th home run in a game with the Kansas City Athletics, then expressed his pleasure by spitting at the assembled writers in the press box. Just in case it was misunderstood, Ted repeated his hit-and-spit performance a few days later. Reaching automatically for their record books, the sportswriters credited Ted with a new major-league record for public expectoration...
...little wearily, Earl Long admitted one day last week that "during the campaign I said I still had the snap in my garters. Now some of it has snapped out." But lest anyone think that means he isn't going to be around for a long time to come, he grinned and added: "I'm the last of the red-hot poppas in Louisiana politics, just like Sophie Tucker is the last of the red-hot mommas...