Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fights. A Canadian version (close to the truth): "The hand-to-hand struggle lasted far into the night [until] the Americans withdrew." A U.S. version: "American troops won brilliant little victories at ... Lundy's Lane." ^ U.S. textbooks forgivably make much of David-&-Goliath triumphs over British vessels on Lake Erie ("Don't give up the ship"; "We have met the enemy and they are ours"). Most Canadian textbooks, ostrichlike, do not mention the naval battles...
...Salt Lake City Willkie made a minor boner. Newsmen, with Utah mining and cattlemen in mind, asked Willkie his position on high tariffs. Said Wendell Willkie: obviously, he was against them. Then he added: "Asking me that is like asking me if I favor sin." Around high-tariff-minded, sin-conscious Utah went word that Willkie thought all tariffs and sin synonymous...
...first purpose was accomplished at luncheons, dinners and off-the-record conferences in Salt Lake City's Newhouse Hotel, Boise's Hotel Boise, Seattle's Masonic Temple, Tacoma's American Legion Hall and Portland's Multnomah Hotel. Newsmen, recalling the hostility-charged Willkie confabs in St. Louis and Washington last year, noted a great thaw all along the line. In Boise, the 300 tickets for the Willkie luncheon sold in 20 minutes; in Seattle, Willkie shook 2,000 hands in 40 minutes. Party workers flocked to see and hear the candidate who, only the week...
Chief Frank Terwilliger ("only don't call me Frank"), in contrast to his confrere, is a real Westerner, claiming Lake Tahoe, Nevada, as his home address. Prospector, gold miner, Holywood stunt man, forest ranger--he has at one time or another been all of these. Instead of working his way through college by hashing, selling clothes, or firing furnaces aces, he worked his way through two years at Nevada School of Mines by mining gold and silver at Carson City and Virginia City. After this he gave prospecting a try, trudging through various parts of Arizona, New Mexico Colorado, California...
...SAILOR, TAKE WARNING-Kelley Roos -Dodd, Mead & Co. ($2). The middle-aged yacht enthusiast was stabbed in broad daylight on a knoll overlooking a Central Park lake, in full view of Jeff Troy and his wife, who trail an exceptionally well-concealed killer through exciting, amusing situations. Good detecting, pleasant people and good...