Word: lesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris in 1951, after a career as an anti-Communist trade union official and Resistance fighter, the Reds were overrunning the streets. At the slightest pretext they ran off rowdy demonstrations, built barricades, smashed windows and defaced autos-particularly those of Americans. The police usually stood helplessly by, lest by fighting they provoke even more deviltry...
...primary race for the governorship officially got under way last week, Georgia found that its eight male Democratic candidates were at least agreed on one thing: not one had any intention of doing away with segregation in the public schools. Lest there be any doubt, seven of the would-be governors had gone on record before the 21-man, all-white Georgia education commission, especially set up to explore ways and means of circumventing the U.S. Supreme Court's historic anti-segregation decision. Unlike the only woman in the race-Lawyer Grace Wilkey Thomas, past president of the Women...
Sacred Ponds. In India, which the shadow reached just before sundown, came a kind of climax. For hours before the eclipse, orthodox Hindus had fasted, lest the food in their stomachs be polluted before it could be digested. Pregnant women hid in dark closets. At the sacred ponds of Kurukshetra and Sanyahet, near Delhi, waited 500,000 pilgrims who believed that during a solar eclipse all the sacred rivers of the world would flow into the two ponds, and that to bathe in them at that time would purge the soul of all sins. Since both the ponds were nearly...
...Delhi took action at last against the 4,000-odd free cows and bulls at large in their city. A task force of 100 picked cow catchers, armed with ropes and long poles, gathered each night at dusk near the municipal post office for briefing. In deep secrecy, lest the cow owners foil their plans, the posses deployed to strategic spots in the city, blocking off the ends of streets and side alleys. Their main idea was to trap the vagrants and drive them into a temporary pound, but time and again the cornered cows would charge their pursuers...
...stiff and edgy." The reason, reported Pearson, is that AEChairman Lewis Strauss uses a recording machine at meetings, and his security officers have clamped taps on the telephone wires of other AEC members. The result, as Pearson saw it, produced fear-muffled commissioners, who are reluctant to voice opinions lest their words some day be turned against them...