Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sound, 700 miles southeast of New York, 580 miles east of Cape Hatteras, five miles wide, almost landlocked, warm, blue and beautiful, was a naval base long before it became a U. S. tourist haven. Last week Bermudians were pleased at the U. S. negotiations but memorialized their disturbance "lest some new conception of American hemispheric defense may affect the status of this ancient colony. . . . We reaffirm our unswerving loyalty to His Majesty the King. . . . We pledge our support to any agreement reached, but pray that such agreement may take heed of our deep-rooted and fervent attachment...
Suppressed in France and also in Germany lest it endanger the Franco-German relations of 1933, the Miraculous Victory of Emperor Ulrich collected dust on Poet Thomasset's bookshelf while its author continued to dream and prune his vines. At the time of the Austrian Anschluss he hoisted a swastika over his chateau, greeted his neighbors with the only German words he had ever learned: "Heil Hitler...
Chippewa men, standing erect in the bows, pole their canoes into the rice fields. In the stern of each canoe sits a squaw, holding in each hand a wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take...
...tactics, such as putting sand and cinders in locomotive grease chambers to create hotboxes, vinegar or sugar in gasoline tanks to stall cars. One particular trick stressed in the school was stretching a thin wire across highways at a height of 4 ft. 3 in. to decapitate enemy motorcyclists. Lest a rider detect the wire, volunteers were told to place a dummy at the side of the road to distract his attention at the crucial instant...
...with a long rope which they snubbed to ice axes rammed into the snow. All afternoon six men carried the stretcher while three others paid out the rope, foot by foot, then found another purchase for the axes and eased the stretcher a little farther down the mountain. Barefoot, lest his ironshod boots slip on the rocks, another rescuer climbed to exhausted Faye Plank, got her safely down as well. A doctor at Bellingham discovered that Anne Cedarquist had a punctured lung, a fractured shoulder, severe sunburn from the reflected glare of ice and snow, but, barring complications, would live...