Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mutiny but Unity. This was not the normal language of Congress party leaders. Nehru and his fellows no longer denounced violence as if they meant it. They sensed a new mood in India's masses, and swung toward extreme methods lest new leaders arise more in tune with the spirit of rebellion...
Corwin seems somewhat worried by such criticism. Says he: "I am the kind of a guy who is terribly wounded by a failure. When I lay an egg, I am worried lest it become a chain reaction." He wishes people would stop comparing his new works with his old. "It's unfair to compare me with myself," he says. "My mind is involved and peculiar like the Pentagon Building, with several levels and ramps...
...Roosevelt then tried to contact his Naval Chief, Admiral Harold R. Stark. "Betty" Stark was at the theater. The President decided not to disturb him lest it cause "public alarm...
...campus "gold coast," did much to banish Smith's finishing-school atmosphere. Neilson treated his "2,000 daughters"*as intellectual equals, with no pomposity. In his weekly chats in chapel he was as apt to urge them to internationalism as he was to lecture them on their posture, lest they end with lumbago...
...worked himself up to a vice president's assistant in a fireworks factory, then got interested in Ramie when he moved to Florida. Last week the stock, issued at $2.87½, was quoted at $4.50. Paper profit to Whitney: $75,000. But Whitney does not plan to sell, lest he appear to be dabbling in securities. (Under his parole he must keep away from Wall Street, liquor, firearms, convicts.) And he thinks he has a good thing in Ramie...