Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commander in Chief (who in his time speared a wolf from the saddle), was seen in a new land-defense move made by Britain. Ripped out of roads and highway crossings, where they had been planted to deter invading Nazi war machines, were pillars and posts and upended rails-lest they impede the mobility of Sir Alan's defense forces...
Gangsters. Discovered in London last fortnight was a mobile defense unit against parachutists, formed and drilled secretly (lest the U. S. State Department become exercised). It was composed of 60 Americans with property and interests in Britain. Commander was Brigadier General Wade Hampton Hayes (retired), 61, onetime Sunday editor of the old New York Tribune, member of General Pershing's staff in World War I. A leading spirit was Charles Sweeney, 30, of Federation Bank & Trust Co., sporting brother of onetime (1937) British Amateur Golf Champion Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who now lives in the U. S. Brother Robert helped...
...compulsory military training, the convention, fearful lest military preparations cut down money for schools, passed a noncommittal resolution...
...available for 12,000,000 persons. Ready also were 2,000 first-aid stations, 190,000 ambulances, 300,000 hospital beds. The public was urged to carry clean handkerchiefs or towels, be ready to see and bind up severe wounds. Lovers were warned not to park in country lanes lest they be shot as suspicious characters. Plans were rushed to evacuate 20,000 children to North America and all interned aliens, lest they be released to help the invaders. With the first wholesale loads of German bombs, a heavy new blanket of censorship fell upon the land. Until...
...Lest this proposed handout get South America into bad habits, Berle and friends proposed to attach a rider: Latin Americans, to get help for their surpluses, must also agree to scale down their production of competitive and unmarketable crops, produce strategic materials which the U. S. needs instead. At that point the emergency scheme would dovetail into large schemes (such as a long-term capital bank) for the hemisphere's economic integration. This week, spurred by France's surrender, Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau, Wallace and Hopkins united in announcing that some such plan lay right around the corner...