Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, undergraduates were met at the library door by awesome lists of Prohibited Books (sample: "All novels in the new library . . . Fielding's works, Heine's works, Voltaire's works . . . Books of prints"). They were also forced to leave their caps and cloaks at the door, lest they smuggle out the books (Harvard still loses 1,000 volumes a year, once found that one student had made off with 3,000 books...
...raised white turkeys. She was violently hated in the country (manifestoes attacked "this red-haired witch who exercises such an occult influence over our King"). When Edward VIII abdicated for Wally Simpson's sake, Carol thought it prudent to suppress the news in Rumania for a while-lest his subjects get ideas. But he refused to give Magda up. Said he: "She is the other half of my being, the other half of my brain...
...record was still befogged by the optimists and the cynics. Many of the optimists had actually joined the cynics. One clear-eyed Dutchman at San Francisco had been afraid of that. The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens had warned: "The world expects too much. . . . Make this clear, lest we defeat our purpose by giving the impression that we are doing more than...
...lest valuable time be expended in raising such embarrassing questions as "Academic freedom?" or "How would this be enforced?," it should be quickly remarked that there is little to worry about on this issue. This legislative hitch-hiker will not be entered on the statute books at this session of Congress. The rider in question, it seems, is attached to the bill to raise subsistence payments for student-veterans. The chairman of the Rules Committee predicts it will not even reach the floor for a vote at this time. Why should it? Have not the concerned congressmen salved their consciences...
...Lest anyone get the idea that the life of a news board man is all meat and no potatoes, be it understood here and now that candidates will be expected to take their turn at interviewing visiting strip teasers, local nuts, and other such dull material...