Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might call for his jumping almost a thousand miles west to Aleppo or south to the Indian Ocean. Last month he took a 560-mile trip north to the Caspian and the Soviet border-along the dusty, rutted highway that is now Russia's "Burma Road." Near the Lake of Urmia, at Tabriz, he saw U.S. sergeants more than 12,000 miles from home helping Soviet workmen assemble army trucks-later talked with Red Army officers and men moving around the southern curve of the Caspian up to the front lines...
...covered fighting in Finland all the way from 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle to the great battles on the ice at Lake Ladoga 600 miles to the south. He was bombed by the Nazis in Norway until his teeth chattered-sizzled with the Aussies in the sands of Libya-flew with British bombers from Greek fields when they raided the Italians at Brindisi. After that he covered the Greek campaign from the fighting in the Albanian mountains to the tragic evacuation of the Australians and the British from the Greek ports. Hell-bent for more...
Listen to William M. Short, president of Seattle's Inglewood Country Club: "We saw it coming months ago. Over in Kirkland (site of the Lake Washington Shipyards, five miles from Inglewood) war workers are sleeping in chicken sheds, in parked cars. We had square yards of space going unused 20 hours...
...Miss It. At Swan Lake, N. Y., Motorist Samuel Liebowitz, a stranger, followed a native's directions, made a left turn on a bumpy road in a fog, presently came to a man waving a lantern, stopped, found himself out on a railroad trestle...
...Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was to join it a week later at the same stand. While balletomanes roared approval in accents as thick as borsch, more staid Manhattanites took stock of the first of five brand-new ballet productions, mooned nostalgically over such puff-skirted favorites as Swan Lake and Sylphides, such latter-day spectacles as Petrouchka and Bluebeard...