Word: lesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner had she recovered than Peter had a serious heart attack (in real life there was a two-year interval). He survived, only to assume, on top of his other duties, those of Senate chaplain. He made a memorable start ("Lord, give us courage to stand for something, lest we fall for anything") and a sudden tragic finish; two years later he died of a second heart attack...
...speech Dulles acknowledged that subversion was perhaps the greatest problem of Southeast Asia today. Then, to show the relationship between military power and political progress, he cited the example of the little Indo-China kingdom of Laos, plagued by Communist-supported "disloyal elements." The government of Laos is "worried, lest, if it suppresses the Communists within, it will be struck by the Communists from without." But, he explained, if the U.S., through SEATO, promises protection from aggression, Laos can turn its full attention to putting down subversion...
...university is to engage in secret work, Bundy said, some authority must choose between its faculty members. The university itself cannot be that authority lest it be driven to differentiate in a "divisive and invidious fashion." When the government places part of the institution under surveillance, its standards are not akin to those of the faculty, he said...
...sometimes fear," M.I.T.'s liberal arts dean, John Ely Burchard, says of engineering students, "lest in the necessary pursuit of their education they shall not have time to develop a sense of proportion about the whole society." In recognition of this fear M.I.T. will inaugurate a five-year study program next year whereby students may simultaneously earn both a science and a liberal arts degree...
Though he complains that the U.N. has been too weak, Knowland is fearful lest it become stronger. He fears that the U.S. Constitution might become diluted by participating in an organization some of whose members have no respect for free institutions. Said Knowland: "Lest we be gradually edged into such a world state before we learn too late wherein we have been taken, I believe that every candidate for public office . . . should be asked to give a forthright view on this great public issue. It is later than you think...