Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed the Yugoslav example and went about the streets with automatic rifles. North of Trieste Tito withdrew some troops to the defensible line of the Isonzo river (see map). The Yugoslavs moved their main headquarters back from Trieste, but showed no sign of relaxing their grip on the city. Lest it be cut off in case of fighting, the one U.S. battalion in the city withdrew toward the main U.S. force at Gorizia. The New Zealanders remained, their tanks patrolling streets commanded by Yugoslav artillery. In the harbor lay three British warships...
...Lest We Forget...
...Lest we forget, let us not pretty up these sites. Let their preservation be scrupulous in every detail. Let their numbers and distribution be sufficient so every German-with Allied encouragement, if necessary-be acquainted with them with Teutonic thoroughness. Let them be accessible to people of all countries as one of the distinguishing monuments of our time...
...objected strenuously: "the right of peoples everywhere 'to know' is at stake." Roy Howard, boss of the rival U.P., wired President Truman, urging that the suspension be withdrawn, lest the A.P. be "condemned unjustly," as he had been "pilloried personally" for jumping...
...renamed the swaggering, bad-tempered barker Billy Bigelow. It has also, to its loss, reduced his swagger and taken away his Continental, scamp-like grace. But it tells much the same story and weaves much the same mood. Billy acts tough for fear of seeming tender, beats his wife lest he reveal he loves her. He commits a crime for his unborn child's sake, dies, leans carelessly against the bar of Heaven, returns to Earth for a day to try to do a good deed...