Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King Leopold was motoring with Queen Astrid near Lucerne, he at the wheel and she with a map in her lap. When his wife asked a question, the monarch leaned over and the car swerved. It plunged down a grassy slope, hit two trees and fell into the lake. The Queen fractured her skull, died 20 minutes later. The King hurtled through the car's windshield. To the first policeman who came by asking his identity, he answered in a dazed voice: "Rethy, Mr. & Mrs. Rethy" (the name often used by the royal family when traveling...
Tsumoru Fujii had been at Ulan Ude near Lake Baikal. His story was typical. This P.W. camp was run by a seven-man "antifascist committee" made up of captives who had gone through a two-month political school at Nakhodka, near Vladivostok. Five nights a week, Fujii and his fellow prisoners would trudge off to hear a two-hour lecture. Last November, prisoners were told how Henry Wallace had been defrauded of the U.S. presidency by vote-buying and illegal balloting organized by Democrats and Republicans. Recently they were told that MacArthur was forcibly taking rice from Japanese farmers...
Hounds to Jeeps. Giovanni passed most of his beautiful things on to his younger son Alessandro, who justified his father's confidence. His most notable undertaking was the conversion into farmland of Lake Fucino-a problem which had been, on the agenda since the reign of the Emperor Claudius I (B.C. 10-A.D. 54). "Either I will dry up Fucino," said Alessandro, "or it will dry me up." After eleven years, Alessandro won; the family still rents out most of Fucino's 35,000 acres to tenants at $40 an acre a year...
...Walled off from the world by the desert and the strictest military secrecy, Muroc Dry Lake...
Coult Lyman Harris, Jr. of 416 Fudd Lake Drive Fairmont, Minn.; Fairmont High. Curran, Peter Ferguson of 312 East College Avenue Waukesha Wis.; Waukesha High. DcMuth, William John of 634 Glenview Street, Street, Wia.; South Division High, Milwaukee. Dennis, Jackson Daniel of 1100 O Avenue N. W. Cedar Rapids, la.; Roosevelt High, Cedar Rapids. Gray, John Walker of 688 Chippewa Street. St. Paul; Humboldt High, St. Paul...