Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest concentration of German power was thought to be in a 2,000,000-man army of defense. Frontier forces were known to be along the borders of Russia, Italy and the Balkans. More were gathered in troop pools behind a scouting screen on Europe's west coast, lest Britain attempt a nuisance invasion of her own to upset Axis plans...
...Miami, with 30-odd bands tootling to beat the cars (but kept from radio listeners lest they hear, illegally, an ASCAP tune-see p. 57), Mississippi State beat Georgetown, 14-10-7, in the Orange Bowl...
...work at home with this group running the government? What chance, when the annual expenditures for defense will make social legislation impossible? When every frustrated, unsatisfied hoodlum in America will start buying colored shirts and parading with his local fascist party? When it will be impossible to critize fascism, lest it disturb relations with our good friends and customers beyond the seas. Hitler won't have to invade America until it is so torn be inner conflict that the German army could cross the ocean in canoes. It is time to end these theories of invasion, so easily refuted...
...British Royal Family, who always observe Christmas with great simplicity - the royal Princesses have never had a Christmas tree and did not have one last week-rusticated quietly at a place kept rigidly secret lest Nazi airmen bomb George VI while the King was reading his scheduled Christmas broadcast. This year British Broadcasting Corp. titled its annual program Christmas Under Fire, scheduled Welsh workers singing in a factory, an Army choir in the Holy Land and a broadcast from an R. A. F. patrol plane over the Channel-especially topical because many Britons last week were saying "It would...
...million) and almost tripled Climax's bill, although the tax rate was lowered. When the county advertised the mine for sale to satisfy the tax claim, Climax advertised too, warned any bargain seekers that the company "wholly denied, challenged and controverted" the county's right to sell. Lest such legalistic language obscure the point, a Climax attorney explained: "We're telling anyone who might try to buy . . . that he would be buying himself a lawsuit...