Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lest the new stations rouse up sensitive Russia, Minister Howe held out an offer of help. He did not know how many weather stations Russia has in its own Arctic regions (she had 137 in 1940). But he hoped that some day Canada would be able to interchange the new Arctic weather information with the U.S.S.R. in the same way the two countries now exchange general weather reports...
LONDON, February 2--A government leader told the British people tonight they raust work harder lest the British experience in socialism end in still greater distress and the conservative press speculated that conditions might arise in the next three months leading to the Africa government's resignation...
Therein lies the quandary of the Democratic left. Forced to dissipate its energies in rigid self-examination, it is fearful lest one of its most useful members prove treacherous beyond control. And while left-wingers dispute whether the horse in the market place is real or imaginary, the battle beyond the gates goes badly. Reuniting of the splintered Democratic left must await the day when the question of Communists is solved by Soviet-U. S. rapprochement, or the more dismal reality of a break...
...week's end, the New York Times archly whispered: "Only politics . . . is delaying the announcement of the engagement. . . . Because of the troubled situation in Greece it was thought the present was an inauspicious time . . . lest it provide a new reason for criticism of the Government's policy of keeping British troops in Greece...
...well as formerly. I must give the responsibility back to the people, and the people must learn to protect their rights. . . . But in the present situation, while the people are learning, I believe the Double Fifth constitution is not suitable. . . . Don't pass an inadequate or impractical constitution, lest China be harmed. Consider the rights and welfare of the people. Only then will Dr. Sun Yat-sen and all our revolutionary dead be consoled in Heaven...