Word: lesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This fall the council hasn't reopened the parietal rules issue lest it disturb the setting of the new buildings: but the problem will probably come up again before...
...lest anyone think he was going to fill his ears with wax to keep out political siren songs, Tom Dewey quickly reminded his hearers that he had twice before "retired" from public office like this. Dewey and Republican leaders had already agreed on whom they wanted as Tom Dewey's successor in Albany: ruddy-cheeked, back-slapping 74-year-old Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, onetime jockey, Presbyterian minister, lawyer and silver-tongued speaker on the Chautauqua circuit. In case any Democrats wanted to make something of Hanley's age, Dewey said pointedly, let them remember that their...
...American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as 'Communists' or 'Fascists.' The American people are sick and tired of seeing innocent people smeared and guilty people whitewashed...
Reporter Toryho had a sensational, exclusive story; La Razoón's circulation rose a fat 40,000. But there was one frustration. Lest the heavy-handed authorities be offended, La Razoón's editors had prudently deleted some details. Days after La Razoón broke the story, the fearless, independent La Prensa reported: "Domingo Massolo was not a veterinarian, as previously announced. He was an army chaplain...
...French High Commissioner Léon Pignon concerns the high commissioner's residence in Saigon. It is the old imperial palace, and the symbol, in native eyes, of paramount place. Bao Dai wants it for his own use, and he stays away from the city lest he lose face by residing elsewhere. The French, with bureaucratic pigheadedness, have refused to part with it, though there are reports that they will soon...