Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three Middle Eastern potentates on a U.S. warship in Great Bitter Lake (see INTERNATIONAL...
...appearances considerable sweetness had been restored to Great Bitter Lake (midway along the Suez Canal) when Franklin Roosevelt aboard his warship successively received King Faronk, Emperor Haile Selassie and King Ibn Saud. The nature of the sweetness, according to a White House announcement...
...happy-go-lucky Vermonter and a cocksure Lake Placid Irishman planned a postwar project last week...
First, Merrill ("Mezzie") Barber and Army Lieut. Arthur Devlin proved themselves head & shoulders above the field-five fellow Americans, ten Canadians-in the annual invitation ski jump from Lake Placid's 70-meter Olympic Hill. Off the takeoff, 145-lb. Mezzie Barber, reached for altitude with revolving arms, then leaned forward from the ankles in wind-cutting power dives that carried him 218 and 223 feet. Artie Devlin, leaning more from his hips than ankles, jumped 220 feet on his first ride; but he let the wind get on top of his borrowed skis, made only 197 feet...
...biologists at Uncle Sam's Fish College think the plan will work for virtually all the Columbia's estimated 240,000 Chinooks-though it may result in a punier breed of fish. But oldtime fishermen are skeptical. Said Forest Ranger Grady Miller, gazing moodily at a Wallowa Lake dam that has completely destroyed a once-great salmon fishing ground: "Civilization and salmon...