Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With an Axis army on the Thracian border, Turkey last week worried lest the Nazis demand she eject all British and Russian "specialists" within her borders, then, if she did not, invade her and try to seize the Dardanelles...
Living quarters in Weld were, in one instance, compared to a monk's cell; lest the prospective occupants of that hall be discouraged, let it be said that a few colorful additions to a room in the way of furniture, will do wonders for even the most ascetic monk
...progress for some time. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, in their nautical conversations fortnight ago, apparently agreed that the Near East and North Africa would soon be a hot spot of war. The British were ready to go into Iran, anxious to go into Libya. The U.S. was fearful lest the Nazis establish themselves in West Africa, hopeful that by strong measures and soft answers General Maxime Weygand might still be kept out of the Axis tents (see p. 16). To all these ends, it would be advisable to rush planes and other equipment to the Middle East...
Last fall, in order to save cloth, Italy's Supreme Council of Autarchy (commission on self-sufficiency, headed by self-sufficient Benito Mussolini) urged Italian manhood to get out of long pants, get into shorts. Lest Italian manhood think them effeminate, newspapers insisted shorts were "not only hygienic but masculine and patriotic...
Over the fate of the great European collections U.S. zoomen can only shake sad heads. In London poisonous snakes have been put to death lest they get loose during an air attack. But conditions are nowhere so bad as during the siege of Paris in 1870. Then the beasts in the splendid Jardin des Plantes were butchered for food. Lion, elephant and hippopotamus meat sold for $5 a pound, was hard to get even at that...