Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...build, assemble, transport, give, That England, France and we may live . . . Lest . . . we be left to fight alone...
...afternoon bands of hooligans had made fists outside the British Embassy and firemen had held their hoses ready to syringe them away in case their excitement led to violence. As night fell the city's lights failed to wink on. The Vatican was blacked out too, lest its neutral and holy illumination guide airborne enemies on a raid. Inside, disheartened Pius XII knelt for an hour in his chapel in prayer. British diplomats would be evacuated by warship to Albania, thence could make their way into still neutral Greece, it was said. The Simplon-Orient Express had, of course...
What with traditional naval secrecy and last week's accent on fifth columns, the Navy made the launching of Washington VI as private as was decently possible. Four miles of the Delaware River were temporarily closed to shipping, lest passing sailors get a peek at the secret superstructure. Philadelphia police and FBI agents kept tabs on the 35,000 (mostly Navy yard workers, their families, naval personnel) who were admitted to the Yard for the big baptism...
Digging a tunnel under the English Channel from Calais to Dover (22 mi.) is a project discussed since Napoleon's time, repeatedly vetoed by Britain* lest it bring an invader from the Continent. Last week both Britain and France might have devoutly thanked God for such a passageway had it been bombproof. After the abrupt surrender of Belgian King Leopold (see p. 32), some 600,000 survivors of the northern Allied Armies were locked in a triangular trap between the Lys River, the Artois Hills and the North Sea (see map). As 800,000 Germans on the ground...
Reaching the spot, searchers found cool, collected authorities, heard the true explanation: a barrage balloon had broken its moorings, and lest its trailing wires short-circuit power lines a French pursuit plane had shot it down. Parisians had mistaken floating fabric for parachutists...