Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this the frumious Mr. Ford had watched. He had listened to paltering discussions of whether to impose wage controls and farm-price controls-two enormous areas which the bill in the first instance ignores, in the second winks at, lest labor and the farmers be outraged. (This bogey had been challenged by Bernard M. Baruch, World War I defense tsar, who declared that the public will support any bill that is uniform in its treatment of all classes and all goods, if the law is fairly and evenly administered...
...packed Berlin's Sport-palast, the few dozen handpicked disabled veterans who sat close to the podium where Hitler spoke-all knew that this war had already taken a terrible toll in lives and hardship. He had to say it because he himself was full of anxiety lest British and U.S. aid make the war drag even more...
...remark by saying he must have had a couple of acquavitas. Though camouflaged with the job of Commerce Minister, Väinö Tanner, as leader of Finland's largest party, is the strong man of Finland. He hates Bolshevism, but is afraid to accept Soviet Karelia lest Russia win the war and swallow Finland. He dislikes the Nazis, but is afraid to run out of the war lest they swallow Finland...
...capture, killing (by decision of an umpire). Reckless "bravery" did not pay. If captured, pressmen were trucked away to the enemy's prison camp, often 200 miles behind the lines, sometimes a full day's drive on truck-blocked roads. They were not released for 24 hours lest they return to the action and give useful information to their side. Amid the continual surprises of open warfare reporters spent half their time fleeing over back roads to escape capture by unexpected parties of the enemy. By the end of the first stage of the maneuvers the press...
...lest anyone should suspect this of being a legitimate conversion to interventionism--that is, a conversion based on a rational re-assessment of the present world situation--, we beg leave to inform all interested parties that the "conversion" is simply the result of a numerical change in the political balance of the CRIMSON staff brought about by the appointment of new members to the staff to replace the outgoing class of '41. In re-reading that editorial, then, one should be careful to throw out the force that a genuine conversion is supposed to lend to the force...