Word: lest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will surely have many readers who will be disturbed by the way credit for the Four-Power meeting in Munich today is being laid at the door of Mr. Roosevelt, and who will share my concern lest Mr. Roosevelt or some of his less astute advisers begin to conceive Wilsonian ideas about the role of America's President in saving the rest of the world from its own folly...
...must also remember to keep a closer watch on his Radcliffe girl. She thinks those uniforms are swell. Let there be no mutiny, young lady, lest Vag become the Wellington of your West Point Waterloo...
...Germany, could count in any case on Russian aid. Up to now Maxim Litvinoff has for many years made all important declarations of Soviet foreign policy, but as he lingered in Geneva last week Dictator Joseph Stalin jumped into the game. Abruptly, Moscow flashed a warning to Warsaw, lest the Poles dare to take a bite out of Czechoslovakia...
After 20 minutes, Franklin Roosevelt left the train. Photographers recorded the solemn occasion (see cut). It was announced that next day's White House press conference was cancelled lest anything the President might say be misunderstood in war-frightened Europe. The impression was that Washington expected the worst hourly, that Peace hung by a heartstring...
...Troops besieged, captured police headquarters in the border town of Schwaderbach, opened the frontier to Germany, and marshaled such a heavy show of armed force that fresh forces of gendarmes who arrived were ordered by Dr. Benes from Prague to hold their ground around the town but not attack, lest the scale of operations amount to "warfare...