Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spruce, pine and aspen for corduroy roads over the bogs. "Mister, I thought we'd never get through those first 15 miles. We'd get so damn tired we could hardly drag home, but every afternoon when we got to the store at Charlie's Lake, the lady there'd have a cake for us. Boy, those cakes were good...
...snow slopped off the warming land, survey parties hacked the bush. Army photo planes roared overhead. Soon the first few miles were laid out and the "cat company" bumbled on grinding treads up the road to Charlie's Lake, six miles from Fort St. John, and jumped off into the wilderness. The "cats" clawed at the soft soil, bogged down, sank almost to the driver's seats in the black muck. The engineers sweated and swore, dug out the cats, clawed on. Every day it rained. Every day they sweated and swore...
...days got longer, the weather warmer. Now came the black flies, horse flies, deer flies, the tiny "no-see-ums" that announce themselves only by a sting, and the mosquitoes. ("Why, over at Watson Lake, a mosquito landed on the airport and they put 85 gallons of gas into it before they realized it wasn't a bomber.") The insects made sweating, swollen hands look like grey fur. The engineers slapped and cursed till they got head nets and gloves...
Wellesley is rushing to the post first and Lake Waban will be repopulated by August 30. Thirteen miles should be little more than a three-hour walk for reconditioned Harvard students...
...Milwaukee lead clouds hung over the city, blotting out the sun. A raw wind whipped in from the south, bringing whitecaps and foam on Lake Michigan, chilling the children who wandered with their parents down Wisconsin Avenue to look at the Christmas toys in the windows of the department stores. In Chicago it was cold and overcast with a threat of snow which began as night fell...