Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks the Germans had been throwing heavy counterattacks, in one of which they lost 300 tanks in three days, against Soviet Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin's forces between Lake Balaton and the Danube, in Hungary. From Lake Balaton to the Moravian Gate (northeastern entrance to mountain-girt Bohemia) they had 30 German and 20 Hungarian divisions. Fighting Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia they had ten more. The only sane military explanation for this spreading-out of force was a desperate Nazi desire to keep the Allies away from those approaches to the bastion...
...that were bursting into flower again in Lausanne's formal gardens. For another spring had come to the new ruins of old Europe, amidst which the Count was somewhat surprised to find himself alive. From the Beau-Rivage Hotel, Mussolini's ex-finance minister could watch the Lake of Geneva reflect the blue sky as in a sun-flecked mirror. Some mornings were so crisp that the Count could see clear across to Evians-les-Bainson the French shore, where, in the evil old days before the war, he and his playfellows of Europe's smart...
Lady of the Lake. Of the Italian refugees in Switzerland, the one with the best chance of returning to Italy had nothing to do with the Italian Fascists. She was Princess Marie-José, daughter of the late King Albert of the Belgians and wife of Italy's Crown Prince Umberto. She lived quietly, with her children and her sedate sister-in-law, Countess Calvi di Bergolo, waiting to see if Italy would be safe for monarchy...
Journey's end, 800 miles and two days from Jidda, was a crossroad of empires-Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal. There, aboard a U.S. cruiser, the President of the U.S. awaited the King of Saudi Arabia...
...That world is more important because of where it is than because of what it has. A look at the Big Three maps will show that its strategic position is as great now as it ever has been -Teheran lies to the northeast, Yalta to the northwest, Great Bitter Lake in the southwest...