Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it had ever agreed to the idea. The Spectator took Britain to task for bundling Nyasaland "huggermugger into an unwilling association with the Rhodesias." The Daily Mirror demanded that the government make it absolutely clear that Britain would never abandon the Nyasas "to the control of local whites," lest one more Union of South Africa be born...
...State Department expressed its concern lest "the situation degenerate to the point where hostilities will break out." And just as the situation seemed to be degenerating further, Syngman Rhee's government belatedly offered, after all, to "accept all Koreans in Japan-provided the Japanese government gives them suitable compensation...
...veiling ceremonies at Khartoum, the Sudanese for whom he had founded a school may have scamped the job. His horse's bronze legs stuck out from under the covering. Thus his true memorial is not an Oxford graduate's biography nor a Kipling's "lest we forget," but a last posting by dark-skinned men in British drill formation, who covered him up lest they remember...
Meanwhile, Catholics of the U.S. community in Moscow continued to attend the Church of St. Louis, but avoided going to confession or calling on the church's Russian priest for any but the most urgent needs lest he be compromised by too much contact with foreigners...
...King Edward VIII (David to his family) was about to abdicate in order to marry Mrs. Simpson. Until that time Bertie, Duke of York, had been happy to play second fiddle to a one-man band. His biographer, Oxford Don John Wheeler-Bennett, records his "agony of apprehension" lest he should become King. When the worst happened ("Led," wrote poor Bertie of himself, "like the proverbial 'sheep to the slaughter' "), and he was indeed King George VI, he said to his cousin: "Dickie, this is absolutely terrible . . .I'm only a Naval Officer...