Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insulted, browbeat, threatened him. They said that 25 of the professor's friends had been seized in Germany as hostages for his return. They brought ten friends to Stockholm to make personal appeals. They arrested his wife in Holland, showed him a letter from her urging his return lest she suffer Gestapo tortures...
Died. "Jacques Mederic," French underground leader accredited by the Algiers Assembly (on which he served until recently) as the movement's No. 1 Nazi-killer; when he was captured by the Nazis in France; by his own hand (poison), lest he be tortured into talking...
Wilby preferred to remain in Canada, refused to waive extradition. Last week he appealed for a writ of habeas corpus, lost. Lest Wilby's lawyers and the Canadian courts have a second thought about the case, the New York detectives hustled Wilby out of town, started for the States by way of roundabout Nanaimo. They were too slow. British Columbia's Attorney General ordered Wilby returned for a new appeal. Said the angry Attorney General: "I don't think any responsible United States official would countenance this hide & seek procedure...
...Many Ottawans, who think their annual grant of $100,000 from the Federal Government is much too small, hope so too. The city owes its existence to the Duke of Wellington, who in 1826 sent Royal Engineer Colonel John By to build the Rideau Canal through to Lake Ontario, lest Americans close the St. Lawrence. Queen Victoria chose the resulting settlement as Canada's capital, after rioting Tories had burned the Parliament Buildings in nearby Montreal...
...Lest the hint escape, Pravda chimed in briskly: "The time has arrived to inflict devastating blows in the west as well...