Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sense of the Past. In Salt Lake City, Merrill Clement, 35, recalled high spots in his life since the age of four: stung twice by swarms of bees, kicked by a horse, struck by lightning, punctured in the stomach by falling on a stick while running away from a bull, treed by another bull, gouged in three fingers by a saw, hit under the eye by a cement mixer crank...
...Veronica Lake, streamlined Rapunzel, whose divorce from Major John Detlie, peacetime Hollywood art director, becomes final on Dec. 2, announced her engagement to Andre de Toth, 29, Hungarian-born cinema director...
...Salt Lake City Tribune's first woman reporter, redheaded Florabel Muir wanted to become the first woman to cover an execution. Utah law said executions could be witnessed only by men. Florabel dickered, fumed, finally got the State Attorney General to rule that she was a reporter, not a female...
...history was repeating itself. Thirty years before, the Russians had driven into the bleak, lake-studded land of many a Junker overlord and his cannon-fodder peasant. In August 1914, General Paul Rennenkampf's Russian army attacked from the east, General Alexander Samsonov from the south. The Germans were routed in the first battle...
...Saipan scrawny, hungry Jap civilians were still coming out of caves where they had hidden since the battle began last June. Upon surrendering they are placed in a two-square-mile compound named "Camp Susupe" (after the nearby shallow lake), which now shelters 18,000 - 13,000 Japs, the rest Christian Chamorros, Koreans and Kanakas...