Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awful were the acts of Naziism in its death throes that General Eisenhower summoned U.S. Congressmen and editors to see them with their own eyes, lest they forget...
Take It or Leave It. This tight control enabled the cartel to shut off industrial diamonds from the Axis. But it has also irritated the U.S. In 1942 the U.S., worried lest the Nazis grab all of Africa, and its diamonds, tried to stockpile them in the U.S. The Trading Company said...
...lack of students either here or in other institutions in the demobilization period, nor do I question the assumption that there are a large number of our fighting men who if they so desire could complete professional studies with distinction; but I do have the most serious apprehensions lest academic formalities and institutional rivalry drive away those who have the most ambition and imagination: The man with brains and initiative may take one glance at the conventional course which leads to a profession and decide...
...They sent him to a hospital, then to the monastery at Storrington in Sussex-a country of Roman roads, rolling fields, abandoned chalk mines, rooks and sheep. Later, at the Franciscan monastery at Pantasaph in Wales, where he spent three years Thompson was forbidden money, even for postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious of his powers, but neve vain or proud." He never entirely cure himself of the drug habit, developed tuberculosis, wrote almost...
Bishop Berggrav's warders are constantly changed, lest his persuasive Christianity corrupt them. Once a month they bring him a few heavily censored books and once a week a letter from his wife. Once a week they take away an answering letter, which his wife must read in Gestapo headquarters. Beyond that, Bishop Berggrav sees no one, talks to no one. Energetic, broad-shouldered and tireless, he spends his days translating the New Testament into modern Norwegian, chopping wood, cleaning his cabin, cooking his meals...