Word: lesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final details of a new Balkan entente, the first in 20 years. Without any nudging from the West, without any inducements of cash or arms, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey voluntarily allied themselves against Soviet imperialism. (If anything, Britain and the U.S. tried to stall the pending pact, lest it irritate Italy, which is still at odds with Tito over Trieste.) The agreement will mobilize a combined army of 800,000 tough fighters to repel any attack from or through the Communist countries of Bulgaria and Albania.* It will also set up a consultative assembly, representing the three Parliaments, to discuss...
...began his spectacular rise as a creative philosopher at 63, when most academicians are thinking of retirement. "The vitality of thought is in adventure," Whitehead told Price. "That is what I have been saying all my life, and I have said little else . . . One of my anxieties . . . has been *lest a rigid system be imposed on mankind and that fragile quality, his capacity for novel ideas, for novel aspects of old ideas, be frozen and he go on century after century . . . until he and his society reach the static level of the insects . . . You may have wondered at my coolness...
...before the conversation could get underway, Senators Mundt (R.S.D.) and Jackson (D-Wash.) called a halt, lest the hearings become a class reunion...
...been denied the right to have a representative question Asha directly. Richardson replied that questions will be allowed from the floor, and that the Council had done its best for the Israelis by arranging for Liveran to present their side of the Middle East dispute. In addition, Richardson observed, lest anyone charge the U.N. Council with favoritism, "an Israeli speaker had been invited before there was any protest whatsoever...
Under the new plan reserve units will supplement the regular army, which for the next year or two at lest is expected to remain at approximately its present size...