Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look Homeward, Angel. In Long Beach, Calif., Victor Peterson sued for the custody of his four children, claiming that Mrs. Peterson, fearful lest the coastal regions slide into the sea, had fled with her off spring to the sanctuary of a mountain belonging to an evangelist named Everett...
...Lest the U.S. forget some of the memorials it has put up and will long have to put up with, Harvard's architectural Dean Joseph Hudnut warned...
...When the boy died, Preacher Howard had a hard time dissuading an uncle from going out with his shotgun to find the man who gave the boy the liquor. Said the uncle after Howard prayed and pleaded with him for two hours: "Here take this gun lest I change my mind-killin's too good for them Saxons...
...lest we forget we'll take a quick glance over the exploits of the more active and put a few on ice for old time's sake...
...Lest we have to fight two or three wars with Japan, why not take a leaf out of Cato's book and finish the job up now? We cannot sack Japan, destroy it, plow it up and sow its site with salt as the Romans did-so effectively that now after 2,000 years our boys fought over the site of ancient Carthage without knowing it had ever been there. But there is one thing we can do. We can take away from the Japanese every mechanical device of which they are possessed...