Word: lest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Business was coming back fast from the steel shortage. As representatives of the steel industry and the steelworkers got ready to meet in Washington with federal mediators, the steelworkers warned the Government to stockpile steel lest there be a shortage for defense purposes if the strike is resumed when the Taft-Hartley injunction period ends Jan. 26. But the Government refused...
Quincy House opened this fall, and people began eating in the new dining hall. Half of them faced the graffito, and half did not. There has been no record made of the diner's reaction, but recently several alumni without a sense of humor have expressed profound concern lest the digestive processes of Quincy pioneers be disturbed by the rudely scratched inscription on the wall...
...Lest I appear unwilling to heed the voice of the Senior Class, let me further clarify my position. I feel that it is unfortunate that Mr. Keohane was left off the ballot since he appears to desire the office so much. If a majority of the Senior Class argues with Mr. Keohane, as evinced by their signatures on his petition, I will seriously consider the possibility of impounding the ballots after tomorrow's primary before they are counted. However, this decision and that of completely reopening nominations would not be up to me alone. If I am presented with...
Irritating as De Gaulle's lordly disregard of alliance by committee might be, his partners were in no position to make the familiar argument from fear. The idea that everyone must rush to the summit lest Nikita Khrushchev grow impatient and the "momentum" of East-West efforts for peace be lost was less forceful when Khrushchev himself seems to be in no hurry for a summit. The French offered him two dates for his pre-summit visit to Paris-Feb. 20 or mid-March. Khrushchev chose the later date, blandly explaining from wintry Moscow that the weather in Paris...
Productivity. The Government has long shied from making any calculations as to the productivity of labor lest it get tangled in the argument between labor and management as to whether the gain was due to harder work or more capital and machines. C.E.D., venturing in, divided the real G.N.P. by the total production force, computed a 1929-57 productivity trend line showing an average 1.6% rise. The difference between a 1.3% labor-force rise and a 1.6% productivity rise, said C.E.D., produced "well over half of the growth in production in recent decades." In 1959 output...