Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geologists, newsmen and stockbrokers were beating a path last week to the tent flaps of a prospector named Robert Campbell, on the chilly shore of Lake Superior. Seventy miles north of Sault Ste. Marie, he had just staked out Canada's newest uranium discovery. Even cautious officials in Canada's Department of Mines thought that his samples looked like "very high-quality...
Last spring, 34-year-old Bob Campbell set out to rediscover the old strike. He formed a syndicate, raised $4,000, bought a boat and some Geiger counters. With two other prospectors he started probing his way along the rocky lake shore. In a whole summer of crawling into every cove and climbing 1,000-ft. cliffs, the trio covered only 60 miles. One night a storm wrecked their boat. The others gave up but Campbell stayed, got another boat and went on alone. Ten miles farther on, at a place called Alona Bay, his Geiger counter buzzed wildly...
...carried out. If he says he'll think it over, he'll forget about it. If he asks for a memo he'll never read it. When his office work is done, he goes to look at the cattle on his Mercedes ranch down the lake shore from Managua. "I'm no politico," says Tacho, without batting an eyelash. "I'm a farmer...
Songs entered in previous years have dwelt on the proximity of Harvard, and the relationship between the two colleges. But last year's winning song, "O Wellesley Has A Muddy Lake" delineated the dubious charms of other women's colleges...
Politis joined the Athens Communist Party several years ago and was given a job guarding the premises of the party newspaper. A Year ago he was promoted to the post of district leader in the Lake Koumoundourou area just ten kilometers from Athens...