Word: lesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point in the campaign, some of [Ike's] associates were a little concerned by what they regarded as too much religion in his politics. Lest he be accused of overdoing it, they urged him for a few speeches to skip the spiritual note. At that proposal, the general was first puzzled, and then irritated. 'Gentlemen,' he told them sharply, 'you misjudge the American people...
...Lest the colonel be disillusioned, the British press tried to find nice things to say about the ancient foe. Lord Beaver-brook's Evening Standard even detected a trace of the secret Anglophile in the colonel. "All his life," noted the paper's "Londoner's Diary," "he has had his clothes built in Savile Row, as also did his father. When he has been unable to come to London, a Chicago tailor has taken the colonel's measurements and sent them to London." The Standard also pointed out that by buying with dollars in Britain...
Russia's top leaders probably now have a feeling that they must hang together lest they hang separately. That feeling could last months or years. Yet Malenkov will have to purge, if only to show and prove his power. Malenkov may establish himself as Stalin II; it is also possible that a new Stalin may emerge from relative obscurity. If a struggle is inevitable, there are no signs...
Bread & Butter Note. In Bloomington, Ind., a burglar who appeared worried lest his robbery of $5 from a grocery go unnoticed left a message for the proprietor: "I robbed...
...change mealtimes, stific conversation, and make exercise obsolete. It threatens the superiority of nature over her own processes. If the good burghers of Toledo see fit to smash every flickering monster they find, we would not mind. For the relentless march of the TV sets must be stopped, lest our most cherished rights of personal choice fall before...