Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal announcement, released at the White House, showed considerably more awareness of what the bomb meant to humanity, in good and evil. But a few weeks later he was again treating it with an oddly offhand air. He chose a fishing lodge at Tennessee's Reelfoot Lake, an informal "bull session" with newsmen against a background of bourbon and poker, to announce that the U.S. intended to keep the secret of the bomb to itself...
...cession of this territory would greatly improve Russia's strategic position by making the Black Sea even more of a Soviet lake. Of its 2,000-odd miles of coast line, the U.S.S.R. now has about 45%, controls another 15% in Rumania and Bulgaria. The area west to Trabzon would give the U.S.S.R. some 8% more. With bases at the Straits, Russia would run the whole sea. Oil-conscious Russia also dislikes having an uncooperative Turkey right next to her great oil city of Batum and her new oil-rich satellite, Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Kirkland Lake no one would have made the Astor doorman's mistake. Anne Shipley was beaten the first time she ran for reeve after her physician-husband died in 1941. But next year she was elected, has been unbeatable since. Well informed and judiciously profane, she has been a popular official...
Then she went back to Kirkland Lake. With things booming again in the district's 13 gold mines, she would be busier than ever. And her three children would be glad to have her back in the kitchen...
Fifteen years ago America's 75 ski clubs counted a mere 3,500 members-a cult of shoptalking zealots ("I schussed the slope, tried a stem christie, made a sitzmark"). After the 1932 winter Olympics at Lake Placid came the avalanche: in 1940-41, some 2,000,000 U.S. skiers spent about $200,000,000 to twist ankles and chap cheeks...