Word: lesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backed by his ambitious and unpopular vice president, Clark Frasier, Geographer Freeman ordered his professors around as they had never been ordered around before. A gruff, stubborn man, he refused to listen to their complaints, once bluntly told them to stop flunking students lest enrollment drop. As the months passed, professors began to seethe. But it was not until they hit upon the strange case of the athletic director's unearned M.Ed, that they openly revolted...
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...AMBASSADOR Lewis Douglas, asked by the President to survey economic conditions in the sterling area, has turned in such an optimistic report on trade progress there that the White House is temporarily keeping it under wraps, lest it provide ammunition for Congressmen opposed to extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. A big point in the report: a warning that the U.S. must ease trade restrictions as U.S. aid declines...
...profound disappointment on his face seemed to tell her: "You're not Peter Pan, or even a boy; you're an actress, and a lady." From that time on, during the run of the play, Maude Adams never again left the theater after a matinee, lest too many little boys grow disillusioned...
...after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, hesitated hardly at all in picking Delegate George Washington to command the American army. Delegate John Hancock nursed improbable dreams of military glory for himself, but Massachusetts, which had started the war, dared not suggest one of its own for high command lest the rest of the colonies touchily let Massachusetts try to finish the war, too. Washington was a Virginian, and thus politically eligible; he had commanded troops, and furthermore he looked like a general...