Word: laine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buffalo-to-Philadelphia Keystone Pipe Line has lain idle since spring for lack of oil at the lakehead. Lost to the East is the line's minimum 16,000-barrel daily capacity...
They saw it at its best when the enemy made his first attempt in eleven months to bomb Chungking, which had lain in its dugouts, all but defenseless, through 142 destructive raids between 1939 and 1941. It was the dusk of a balmy day when in fighter headquarters the radio began to peep and squawk. Chinese operators took the messages; they came from courageous Chinese watchers at secret radios deep...
...convoy, most spectacular spy-ring prize, was made up of Norwegian ships which had lain quietly in Göteborg harbor for two years. They stayed there pending a final decision by Swedish courts, turning down Nazi claims of "authorizations" from Norwegian owners, in favor of claims that the Norwegian government had chartered the ships to the British. Ship-hungry Britain then ordered the ships to run the Nazi blockade of the Skagerrak. In the midst of a blinding snowstorm on the evening of March 31, the ships slipped out of harbor to a rendezvous with British destroyers. Waiting...
...museum has its rhino skull at last. It was found amid a heap of dusty bones in the Museum's attic, where it has lain since...
...believed what he had written, in spite of its damned melodrama. The picnic had been a success--a perfect afternoon and evening, and the sunburn on his face had brought back a partly forgotten feeling of well-being as he had lain on the ground gazing up through the trees. When it had gotten dark, the firelight and the singing had flickered through the woods together. The others had sung unconcernedly, as if there were more picnics coming soon. It wasn't the way Vag had expected them to sing on the last of their Concord evenings together...