Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Place has become even more a meeting place of nations than the UN in recent years, as students from 58 countries gather nightly in its Colonial-style rooms to sip tea, meet new friends, and carry on bull sessions in an atmosphere many degrees more cordial than that at lake Success. Now known as the International Student Center, the pillared, yellow-clapboard house near Radcliffe yard echoed to the first of many non-New England accents in 1941 and became an unofficial consulate that has since eased many foreign students into unfamiliar American ways...
...became vacant, the U.S. and the Latin American republics decided to support Czechoslovakia, which in foreign policy is 99.44% Russian controlled. The Czechs, however, figured that they could keep their 00.56% of independence better by staying out of the limelight. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk campaigned against himself in Lake Success lobbies...
...constant stream of visitors makes the editorial office pleasantly chaotic. On Saturdays the staff, and any friends who happen by, adjourn to an Italian restaurant for a long lunch. Says Marion Strobel: "Then we all dangle our feet in Lake Michigan and otherwise behave like poets...
Girls have been asked in a college decree, however, "not to let the water run while you're brushing your teeth," and to conserve the precious stuff in any other way possible. "I think we're going to end up by drinking Lower Lake," was the standard reply given by Holyokians when interrogated about the shortage...
...Zionist puller of strings at Lake Success said that a Russian-American deadlock would be disastrous to the demoralized Jews fleeing to Palestine...