Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short-grass farmers, enduring the heat and two hours of speechmaking was no great price to pay for the spectacle before their eyes. Above the dam lay a turquoise lake. Below it, through a creek-bed ordinarily dry at this time of year, tumbled a stream of water, enough to feed 340 miles of irrigation canals and ditches...
...years, hapless straphangers have protested in vain. Chicago's traction troubles are rooted in corrupt politics and civic inertia. But last week Chicagoans were no less amazed than if they had suddenly seen the Wrigley Building afloat in Lake Michigan. The "traction problem" was apparently solved at last...
...speed record, inching closer to the critical speed of sound, moved up a double notch. At Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., the Navy's Douglas Skystreak (0-558), piloted by Commander Turner F. Caldwell, zipped four times over a three-kilometer course at the average speed of 640.7 m.p.h. This was 16.9 m.p.h. faster than the record set (on June 19) by Lockheed's P-80R. Then last week, five days later, Marine Major Marion Carl (credited with 18 Japanese planes) took the Skystreak up again. Flying at times only 25 feet above the desert, he averaged 650.6 m.p.h...
...Lake Success a few hours later, Egyptian zealots in the gallery disturbed the peace of the Security Council itself. Cried bearded, red-fezzed Mustafa Momen from his place in the front row: "I have a document here written with blood .... Justice for our people!" Guards rushed him out; the startled Council resumed debate on the Egyptian case. But a few minutes later, when another galleryite, Ahmed Kamel Kotb, had to be ejected for shouting "Down with imperialism! Long live the Nile Valley! . . ." the Security Council decided to quit for the week...
Bottoms Up. Shy, almost inarticulate with strangers, Hosford seldom leaves home except to go on summer cruises on lake freighters, whose captains are almost his only close friends. He sometimes brings the skippers home for sessions of story swapping during which he makes them drink straight whiskey by the tumbler...