Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Works. Columnist Pyle, still genuinely humble yet not unaffected by his new fame, is particularly worried lest the forthcoming Pyle-based movie portray him dashing around with pad & pencil, eagerly asking questions and making notes...
Money from Heaven. Lest the Government be accused of directly subsidizing procreation, there were limits. Families with more than four children would get a little less than the basic allowances. Benefits for the fifth child would be $1 less than the basic allowance, $2 less for the sixth and seventh children, $3 less for the eighth and all the rest. But a paragon who had sired 15 children in 16 years would still be able to draw $816 a year from the treasury. By July 1, 1946 the Dionnes would draw $420 for the quintuplets alone...
...that. In the last five kilometers there was a series of such forts; an outfit might spend an afternoon moving up a few hundred yards and taking one fort and its supporting strong points. When the frontline troops had pushed on, demolition squads blew the concrete blockhouses to rubble, lest German patrols infiltrate at night and man the forts again...
...Romans and refugees went hungry. Roman housewives could find sugar at $10 a lb., string beans at $5.50 a lb., rice at $5 a lb. Their husbands probably had not worked for months. Until the Nazis left, able-bodied male Italians had been afraid to walk the streets lest they be deported to forced labor in Hitler's Reich. Many a family in Rome had devised secret hideaways behind sliding panels or revolving bookcases, or at the ends of cellar labyrinths. There the menfolk could hide, subsist on meager, hoarded rations if the Gestapo came...
Frenchmen heard the final contrast between the leader of Vichy, Marshal Pétain, and the leader in exile, General de Gaulle. The Old Man of Vichy, magnificent only in his consistency, begged his countrymen to ignore Allied or Gaullist commands, and to obey the Germans lest Nazi reprisal fall on France. General de Gaulle, shunned until the last moment, instructed them to heed "the French Government" (i.e., his own), and said: "France, overwhelmed . . . but never conquered, is on her feet to take part. . . . The simple, sacred duty is to fight...