Word: lesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, in his first hour on Yugoslav soil, Khrushchev had badly overreached himself. Anxious lest any Westerners get the wrong ideas. Yugoslav officials spent the next two days buttonholing newsmen to announce how outraged, how embarrassed, how annoyed they were at what Khrushchev proposed...
...biddies are opposed to Bermuda shorts and are forcing their inhibitions on Harvard undergraduates. Housemasters, long defenders of good taste in dress, obviously do not realize what is going on in their own dining rooms. They should act quickly to prevent biddie clothing taste from becoming still more domineering--lest John Finley return from Oxford next fall to find floral patterns appearing by mandate on Eliot ties...
...Long Legs is the first to set the story to music (by Johnny Mercer and Alex North). The saccharine story: a wealthy, middle-aged American (Fred Astaire) takes a fancy to a pretty young French orphan (Leslie Caron) and decides to pay her way through college in the U.S. Lest philanthropy be thought philandering, he keeps his identity a secret. Leslie knows him only from his shadow, seen once in an odd light, as "Daddy Long Legs." However, there is nothing more certain in Hollywood than the fact that to the man who pays the bill belongs...
...borrows styles from no one, at home or abroad; when she is in Paris on vacation, she visits no collections lest she be influenced by what she sees. Almost everyone can buy her clothes, which range from bathing suits and play clothes ($10 to $50) to dresses ($29 to $100) and suits and coats ($89 to $150). Anyone can wear them, but they look best on what countless ads have presented as the ideal American beauty-tall, slim, long-legged...
...Sept. 1, 1939 George was in a New York hospital undergoing eye surgery. His wife, worried lest he be upset, withheld from him for several days the news that Hitler had marched on Poland. After he learned that Europe was aflame, George realized that the time for neutralism was past, returned to the Senate to help lead the fight for lend-lease. But he was still by no means a convinced long-term internationalist...