Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Leonid A. Govorov's Leningrad army, fresh from its triumph over the Finns in Karelia, swept across Estonia. Its left flank drove through from the southern end of Lake Peipus. Its right flank drove through the lake-studded swamps bordering the Gulf of Finland. At a mile-an-hour clip, this force rolled into Tallinn, last but one of the occupied capitals (according to Soviet reckoning) of the Soviet republics...
...pretender had some solid grounds for hope-Don Juan of Bourbon, 31, only non-hemophilic son of Spain's late ex-King Alfonso XIII. From his Swiss villa on Lake Geneva, where he will stay until the skiing season opens, the Infante made it known that he was against "totalitarian policies," was "calmly and confidently" waiting for a call to Madrid. He had reason. Britain might right royally welcome a monarch in that bulwark of Empire, Spain...
...Student Progressive, member of the Debate Council, history and philosophy major from New York, George Washington High School; Glen O. Martin, member of the Harvard Liberal Union, philosophy major, Joplin, Missouri, Joplin High School; Marshall N. Rosenbluth, physics major, Chicago, Stuyvesant High School; and Truman O. Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Oakland High School, who was inducted into the Navy in June...
Dragnet. In Salt Lake City, a would-be burglar was beaned with a coffee pot at the Johnsons' house, fell through a glass door at the Wakes', was caught by the Drurys' daughter, Fern...
...Noranda, in western Quebec, an old prospector slammed down four bags of gold ore on a hotel bar and shouted: "You don't have to figure what this rock runs to the ton; it assays by the pound." At the O'Brien mine near Kirkland Lake, Ont., speculators caressed a new-found slab of what mining men call "jewelry"-a ten-pound chunk of practically pure gold worth $2,000. At Noranda's golf course, golfers played around two gold-drilling sites smack in the middle of a fairway. The gold stock market reached its highest point...