Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates' lounge at U.N. headquarters at Lake Success, where representatives of the world's sovereign nations gather over Martinis or orange juice, was a handy place for a casual meeting. There, one day last February, the U.S.'s lanky negotiator, Philip Jessup, fell into conversation with Russia's barrel-chested Yakov Malik. From that conversation, the U.S. learned last week, came the series of talks which brought the first break in the cold war in months: the Russians were prepared to abandon the blockade of Berlin. The end of the Berlin airlift, a historic employment...
Princeton's powerful 150-lb crew was good enough Saturday to beat Harvard by over a length on Lake Carnegie and thereby lift the Goldthwait Cup out of the Crimson trophy case for the first time since 1937. Yale was the third entrant in the twenty-fourth annual Big Three Championship race...
After a classical Swan Lake and the sprightly Fancy Free, they got the main course: Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend, with Nora Kaye, the big-eyed little ballerina who has made Fall River one of Ballet Theatre's signatures as well as one of her own. She spun through the story of the gentle, murderous New England spinster ("Lizzie Borden took an ax . . .") like something out of a Freudian nightmare, and her audience loved...
After Frankie's mother died in 1916, father was married to Amelia Kien. Times were better. The family moved into a better house and Frankie led a pleasant life. His stepmother and sister Nora were devoted to him. He swam in Lake Washington, tinkered with a $10 motorcycle which he could never make run, worked at a few after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High...
Those who survived the wind-swept course received a warm welcome on the shores of Lake Waban. There were girls and lemonade waiting, plenty to eat and drink. After the afternoon sports of hiking, canoeing, and baseball, dates were available for the hardy...