Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their stand. in the center near Lake Trasimeno, where Hannibal once (217 B.C.) bloodily wiped out a Roman army under Flaminius, seemed only temporary. They had been providentially helped by days of rain that gummed down the pursuit, forced the unopposed Allied air fleet to drop from more than 2,000 sorties daily to a piddling...
This week even his own people could see that the entire Pacific, as far west as the meridian of Tokyo (140° E. Long.), was now an American lake. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of three Pacific fleets, had said: "I don't know anything more we could do to provoke those people into a fleet action...
...green-garbed German officer was abruptly firm: the Fuhrer would not tolerate delay. For the last time handsome, sad-eyed Leopold III looked down from his Laeken palace-prison on swans nodding whitely in a blue lake, on the withering bloom of purple rhododendrons beneath stately beeches. Stiffly he turned, walked out to a waiting car, climbed in beside his commoner second wife (to whom he had given the title Princess de Réthy). As helpless as any of the 600,000 Belgians who had preceded him, the King of the Belgians was deported to Germany...
...minute flat, fires judges, reverses court decisions, releases prisoners, slaps others in jail. Often he makes up his mind simply by staring at a prisoner. Over the portable radio he gives advice on cooking, fishing, agriculture, engineering, military science, history, economics. He even teaches the natives of Lake Atitlán how to handle their boats...
...Veronica Lake, her temper a shade frayed by a thumb broken at a Chicago bond rally, engaged in a shouting contest with a Boston gallery that heckled her soft-spoken plea for the Fifth War Loan. Said she of the extra-long bob: "Who are you? bobby soxers?" Said they: "No!" Said she: "Well, who do you think you're listening to, Frank Sinatra?" A happy ending to the squabble came with the purchase of a $100,000 bond which included the privilege of having Veronica wash dishes at Mayor Maurice Tobin's luncheon...