Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forest resources was burned or damaged. ... Losses in farm stands, while severe to owners, will have small effect on Maine's overall agricultural economy. . . . The attractive Bar Harbor colony lost some valuable summer estates and the Kennebunkport area suffered heavily, but . . . most of our seashore and lake resorts were untouched by the fires...
...Lake Success last week, forlornly huddled at one end of a vast committee room, the Atomic Energy Commission held its first meeting since September. It set up a control committee to go ahead with the '"majority plan" (the U.S. plan), blueprinting the structure and operations of an international control body, even down to financing. Russia's Andrei Gromyko, the deadpan diplomat, did not vote against this project, but he scorned it. Since Russia's current line is to do nothing and to blame the U.S. for the fact that nothing is done, Gromyko did not want people...
...Ninth Meeting. At Biscayne one night last week, the two speediest dogs in Florida-Beachcomber and Dry Lake-did their noble best. It was the ninth meeting of the two rivals in a month-something like a continuing race between Armed and Assault. Beachcomber whistled out of the No. 2 hole, got to the turn in front and stayed there. His time for the 5/16 mile was 31⅔ if, only a fifth of a second slower than the track record and the best time of the current season. It was Beachcomber's fifth victory over his rival...
...also gets plenty of pampering. So does his arch-rival Dry Lake, whose master, a well-to-do coal mine operator named Lucilius Moorer Kirkpatrick, reportedly bought...
...fellow whites didn't fare much better. He was charmed by the Lake George country of New York State, but found it "occupied by a race of boors about as uncouth, mean, and stupid as the hogs they seem chiefly to delight in." He reserved his greatest contempt for Englishmen. Looking down from the cupola of St. Paul's in London: " 'Now,' thought I, 'I have under my eye the greatest collection of blockheads and rascals, the greatest horde of pimps, prostitutes and bullies that the earth can show. . . . Was there ever such a cursed...