Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continued moral bankruptcy of the American people in international affairs was nowhere more amply demonstrated than in last Saturday's session of the Economic and Security Council at Lake Success, New York. Headed by the United States, the Council voted, ten to five, to defeat a proposal to suspend negotiations with the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization on the grounds that France's Spain was a member of the organization. This latest move of the Security Council represents not only a direct violation of the Un. N. General Assembly agreement which specifically states that the U. N. should have absolutely...
...Lake Success, L.I., delegates heard with alarm loud Russian cries of "Munich!" During the debate on Greek policy and the presence of British troops in Greece, Ukrainian Delegate Dmitri Manuilsky rose to shout that he had been accused of "propaganda aims." Said he: "In the light of the experience which we have lived through, we now know that behind all this noise about propaganda was concealed a preparation of an aggressive war. ... It would seem little likely, but it is a fact, that the shadows of Munich are rising again. ... A wall of votes against the Soviet Union is being...
Officials guessed that 4,000,000 sockeyes would struggle up the 300-odd miles from the Fraser delta to Adams Lake in the next few weeks, to spawn and die; in the spring of 1948 millions of baby salmon would head down the river for the sea, would return in 1950 to complete the cycle...
...Winston Churchill was abed with a slight concussion and bruises; she got them on Lake Geneva when a speedboat she was riding made a quick turn and tossed her against the gunwale...
...Security Council (at Lake Success, N.Y.) was officially treated to a study of Balkan problems last week. The subject: Greek-Albanian border incidents. The occasion: the submitting to the Security Council of reports by the Governments of Greece and the Socialist Soviet Republic of Ukraine (acting for Albania). Some distressing details: one Demetrios Drallios of Argyrochorion, a Greek, reported the loss of a mule; one Aliko Yaco of Radat, Albania, complained of the disappearance of an ox. Each Government charged the other with provocative acts. Among them: whitewashing frontier markers without permission; sending soldiers to slink about and ring cowbells...