Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys had not been too impressed. Tom, the mustacheless image of his father, had looked over briny Great Salt Lake and had dismissed it with "Give me the pool at our house in Albany any time." During the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, he had signed autographs with a patient smile. Politicking had been more fun. He had sidled around the lobby of the Hotel Utah, spotting governors by their name badges and surreptitiously reading the name. Then he marched up and offered his hand with a hearty: "How do you do, Governor...
...Faithful Inn, the Deweys rested. Tom Sr. felt that everything was going fine. Ten of the 17 Republican governors polled at the Salt Lake conference had picked him as the likeliest Republican presidential nominee. "I hadn't thought it would be that overwhelming," said the Governor modestly...
...London because it might lead to dominion status instead of full independence for Burma. Last year gunmen fired three shots into U Saw's car; glass cut his face. He accused Aung San of planning the attack, and tightened the guard on his fortress-like house on a lake seven miles from Rangoon...
...Idaho's panhandle, 50 miles south of the Canadian border, lies Lake Pend Oreille (rhymes with yonder bay), shaped like a question mark. Three mountain ranges cradle the lake, 2,500 feet deep in places and a shade of blue to match. Everyone agreed that it was pleasant to look at, but no one got very much excited about the fishing there until two years ago. Then a local meat-market owner got the strike of his life: his reel screamed and he thought his line would snap. From Pend Oreille's cool water, after a few minutes...
...Pend Oreille, as at many of the most-fished U.S. lakes and streams, man has improved upon nature. Some years ago, local sportsmen bought 100,000 fish eggs from Kootenay Lake in British Columbia to plant in the lake. The first batch died and the townspeople of Sandpoint, Idaho were skeptical. But in 1941 the sportsmen tried another 100,000; these hatched successfully, were planted in the lake as fingerlings. Pend Oreille's deep water and an abundance of blueback salmon to feed on seemed to be just what the Kamloops (local name for the over-sized rainbow trout...