Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeds and Dikes. The most important battles of the last month have been in the lake country of central China (see map inset). Along the meandering Yangtze, in the flatlands between Shasi and Yochow, the Japanese threw an eight-pronged drive southward toward huge, dike-bound Tungting Lake. Using perhaps 40,000 troops and plenty of aircraft, the Japanese quickly overran the area between river and lake...
...quick campaign was not military. The importance lay in the timing. The campaign seriously interfered with the spring plantings of rice and cotton in one of China's too-few fertile basins. Most significant act of the hit-&-run attackers was their blasting of the dikes of Tungting Lake, flooding a huge area west of the lake. China has a phrase to express the futility of invading a land where the invader is allowed to pass and then is swallowed up: "plowing water." The Japanese at Tungting Lake lent the phrase a sinister new meaning...
Deeply alarmed by the College attitude, even though she has never been voted worst anything by the cynic Poon, Deanna was the first to answer the letter sent by the War Service Committee, to 12 stars, including Veronica Lake, Ann Sheridan, and Betty Grable...
...Stuff. In Salt Lake City, the Utah Building & Construction Congress decided that the city's two worst fire hazards were the central fire station and the public safety building...
Housekeeping. In Seeley Lake, Mont., the L. A. Otters watched a grouse fly into the house through a closed window, fly out through another. In Centerville, Iowa, a loaded coal truck entered the house of Mrs. Blanche Heck, pushed her, abed, through the wall into the next room, left her against a hot stove, uninjured. In Hammonton, N.J., a train wrecked a truck driven by Jules Press, who flew into the air accompanied by four blankets, on which he landed, slightly bruised...