Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lobster. Last week, the royal scene was, as usual, pure pastel. Gustaf now spends most of his time at Drottningholm Castle, which stands on an island in a lake near Stockholm (his town palace has too many stairs, only one elevator). From his study window he can see his subjects walking beneath the huge trees in the garden or near the pond where, in the summer, they feed Gustaf's swans. He likes to surround himself with women & children, lunches in the company of elderly ladies in waiting. His favorite dish is still lobster in brandy sauce...
...storm drove steadily on. In the Midwest, temperatures fell to zero or below. In Chicago, nine steel radio towers buckled and fell in eight hours as a gale roared across Lake Michigan. Maine was peppered with hailstones as big as buckshot. Buffalo was treated to lightning and thunderclaps. A collier broke from its pier at North Weymouth, Mass., was blown across the Fare River, crashed into another wharf...
...commuters fought vainly against the white wasteland of Lake Success. Others gave up; one French delegate (ignoring all traffic signals because of U.N. immunity) spent his time skiing down Manhattan's Park Avenue. Even the U.N. bar was almost deserted. One afternoon, a silent figure joined a handful of hardy newsmen. Over his whiskey, he growled: "Thash the trouble with thish place. Not an Irishman around." Anonymously, he disappeared...
This week the Dominion's juiciest diplomatic assignment was still going beg ging. At Lake Success, until a willing and acceptable man is found, the job of representing Canada would probably be filled by External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister, behind a screen of refrigerated secretaries, said nothing...
Early, pre-season snows in northern New England and Canada plus poor ski-ing conditions around Cambridge before vacation proved a handicap to the ski team and skidded them into sixth place among ten competitors at the annual intercollegiate meet at Lake Placid over New Years...