Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordered the telephone exchange shut down, lest any information be phoned to the enemy. He proclaimed a curfew. He ordered the town cop to get out of his grey-green, swastika-decorated uniform before someone shot him, and temporarily to carry on his constabular duties in civilian clothes, wearing a brassard...
...Nellie) Richardson Jr., Army commander in the Pacific Ocean Areas. On the third day Franklin Roosevelt called in reporters for his only press conference of the trip, seating the newsmen on the lawn of the Holmes estate, under the palms, from which all coconuts had been thoughtfully sheared lest they drop on unprotected heads. The only noteworthy point: U.S. fighting forces will go back to the Philippines, he said, and General MacArthur will go with them...
...cold weather he is almost smothered under several layers of clothing. Before the end of his first year he is forced to learn to sit stiffly on his haunches. Other restraints result from the flimsy construction of Japanese houses: when a baby begins to crawl, he is held back lest he butt through the paper walls or burn himself in the charcoal fire...
...theme and dreams are usually so elaborately interwoven that even the most prominent incidents and characters invite multiple interpretations. "Indeed," conclude the authors, "the baffling obscurity of Finnegans Wake may be due to [Joyce's] determination to muddy the track of his narrative with a thousand collateral imprints, lest we trace him to the scene of his own life secret, which he yet describes in compulsive half-revelation." Campbell and Robinson offer no key to Joyce's life...
...when these gutter-dwellers began to boo, with grim efficiency other Frenchmen, women & children singled out the hooters, drove them with surreptitious cuffs and curses from the Avenue. The prisoners grinned and marched on, chins up. Lest the parade arouse a real demonstration, the Germans sneaked the prisoners into a side street...