Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winding up its third meeting last week at Lake Success, ECOSOC had a hatful of recommendations for the General Assembly, which convenes on Oct. 23. Mostly they concerned such matters as world health, narcotics control, an International Refugees Organization. Russian intransigence blocked a U.S.-favored proposal for a central commission to coordinate Europe's economy; but a 450-page report was drafted on recovery in devastated areas. Russia blocked an attempted short-term solution of the Danube River problem. When the U.S. proposed a Vienna conference on the Danube question in November, Russia said that the Danube countries would...
Youskevitch says, "stays on her pointes very good." During his first week with the new Ballet Theater company Youskevitch appeared only in three short pas de deux with Ballerinas Alicia Alonso and Nora Kaye. For the rest of the season he will dance leads in the classic ballets: Swan Lake, Giselle and Les Sylphides...
Lightning on a Lake. Webb & Knapp had not given promise of such a mickle feat in its earlier days. Operated for years by Ivy League sprouts (Groton's and Harvard's Elliot Cross, St. Paul's and Yale's John Hurst Purnell Gould, St. Mark's Henry Sears), the 24-year-old business was strong in contacts, weak on aggressiveness, barely managed to break even on servicing its exclusive clientele...
...dozen-odd years in & out of various realty firms, he had been only a moderate success: he didn't know enough of the right people. When, in the course of one of his deals, he ran into W. & K., it was like loose lightning being drawn to a lake...
...cheers for School Tie, the winner, and no boos for Mahout. The stunned crowd viewed the performance with deep respect. Nothing like this had happened since last May, when a well-backed jumper left the steeplechase course at the third jump, and went for a dip in the infield lake...