Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permanent site is finally chosen, Russia's Andrei Gromyko leased a five-story apartment building, ancient but refurbished, on West 88th Street, in a rather dowdy neighborhood. A woman, who probably remembered a cloak-&-dagger film called The House on 92nd Street (four blocks north), expressed audible worry lest the Russians fabricate atomic bombs in the basement. ¶ The Argentine envoys, who arrived early and ensconced themselves at the Waldorf-Astoria, excited the envy of other Latin American delegations unable to find lodgings on Park Avenue. The British were at Essex House, handy for early-morning constitutionals in Central...
...Lest upperclassmen in the three courses feel that the Union is strictly Freshman domain, John J. Gallen, supervisor of Boylston and the House libraries, said yesterday that he wished to make it clear that Freshman Dean Leighton and William Bradford, secretary of the Union, were freely granting all upperclassmen permission to use the Union as long as the emergency requires...
...Wholesalers will profit by the difference. But cigaret smokers will pay 1? a pack more for all major brands (last week's ½? raise, along with a six-months-old ½? raise which retailers have been absorbing). Cigaret makers did not seem worried lest the price boost seriously cut sales further; they are already well down from their wartime peak...
...lucky emigré: Lena the Hyena (pearl of Lower Slobbovian womanhood, who is so ugly that she is kept behind an iron curtain of seclusion lest men, seeing...
...fought in vain and that this country's "national sovereignty" was contingent on its avoidance of foreign infection from international organizations. And so the upper chamber of this nation's legislature, incidentally breaking Mr. Wilson's heart, decided not to involve the United States in the League of Nations lest this country be drawn into another World War. Russia was not permitted to become a member state of the League. And the League of Nations, lacking the power and support of the two mightiest nations of the earth, slipped steadily down the road to World...