Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bright Side. In Salt Lake City, the editors of the state prison newspaper had a consoling word for their fellow convicts: "No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples...
Isolation. Neither highway nor railroad snowplows could cope with the storm; hard drifts formed behind them almost as soon as they had passed. Trains were halted, one after another. When the storm ended there were six passenger trains in the yards at Omaha, eight in Ogden, five at Salt Lake City, five at Cheyenne, six stalled between Sidney, Neb. and Cheyenne...
...Lake Success, meanwhile, news of the Palestine cease-fire raised high hopes. Members of the U.N. Committee on Palestine, meeting briefly, agreed that Egyptian and Israeli representatives should meet with U.N. Mediator Ralph Bunche on the Island of Rhodes this week to hammer out the terms of a permanent armistice. With nothing further to do, the committee then adjourned happily into the unseasonal Long Island sunshine...
After three months in the hurly-burly of Paris, the U.N. was back last week in its well-ordered plastic tower at Lake Success. The air was heavy with French perfume from over there. The freshly waxed green and candy pink corridors rang with cheery greetings of homing travelers. But there was little to be cheerful about...
...Lake Success, only Dutch Representative J. H. van Royen had kind words for his country's action. U.N.'s Good Offices Committee, which has been trying to mediate between the Dutch and Indonesians, gloomily suggested it might as well quit. Philippine Representative Carlos P. Romulo deplored the Council's "labyrinthine self-justifications." Australia's peppery Norman Makin cried that the Security Council could not "bury its head in the sands of Lake Success." Indonesia's L. N. Palar warned: "This is only the beginning of our war of self-defense...