Word: laine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the pitted, single-lane oi. road to Pocatello bustled with more traffic than Arco had seen for years. Speculators from as far away as Boise bid for lots that had long lain unsold at $10. "We don't want to gouge anyone," protested Realtor Ora Jones. But a lot opposite the Dee, which is the town's only hotel, jumped from $2,000 to $18,000. Said one Pocatellan: "The jackrabbits up there have 'For Sale' signs over their holes...
...hours, they had lain, nearly suffocated, in the noisome hold of a 45-ft. schooner as it rolled and pitched on the voyage from Havana to Florida. But the U.S. border patrol had been tipped off from Cuba; an amphibious plane had spotted the ship and radioed a report to shore. They were seized as the schooner slipped into the little fishing village of Marathon, 100 miles south of Miami on the Florida Keys...
This week in Beverly Hills, the U.S. public got to see what had startled Motorist Lewenthal: a self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, one of the finest of the many he did, which had lain unknown for almost 60 years. It was a major find...
...heavy fur coat, prostrate beside a lonesome road. His face had been scratched by briers, but there was no sign that he had been attacked. His clothes were frozen to his body; apparently he had fallen into a stream, stumbled out and collapsed a little distance beyond. He had lain there some eight hours before he was found...
...seems rather peculiar," a Rumanian Communist official murmured suavely in Bucharest, "that it took the ex-King two months to make up his mind that his hand had been forced." Michael's difficulty, however, had not lain in making up his mind, but in finding an opportunity to speak it. He had been negotiating with the Communists for the salvage of some of his Rumanian properties...