Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sonorous tones familiar to Cleveland's temple last week filled the committee room at Lake Success: "In these tragic years, when the whole household of Israel became one great hostelry of pain, we could not have builded what we did build had we not preserved our unshakable trust in the victory of truth." Grey-maned Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, speaking for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, was telling the 55 U.N. delegations what the Zionists regard as truth's victory: unlimited immigration of refugee Jews into Palestine, creation of a Zionist state when Jews outnumber the Arabs...
...away from Lake Success, another Arab nodded approvingly at Cattan's performance. From his beflowered villa in Cairo's Qubba Gardens (guarded inside by Palestinian gunmen, outside by Egyptian troops), Haj Amin el Husseini, onetime Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi collaborator, directed the work of the Arab Higher Committee. Said he: "We go to New York, but we are under no obligations to accept any solution unless it is favorable. If unfavorable, we will fight...
Riding in on Cornell's sweep-wash last Saturday doesn't exactly humble Tom Bolles' previously unbeaten Varsity crew. By finishing second on Lake Cayuga--instead of winning their third straight regatta, they merely complicated any attempt to pick the best of the Eastern crews...
...Second Annual Championship Regatta at Princeton next Saturday, tried yesterday to salvage something from this mess when they gave the Crimson, Cornell, and Navy top seeding. (Navy has lost to both Harvard and Yale.) But there will be seven other crews in the 2000-meter sprint on Lake Carnegie and only a couple of them can be counted completely out of the running...
...thirds of Chicago's drinking water supply is nothing but chlorinated (unfiltered) water from Lake Michigan, which is also used for sewage disposal. The city law requiring pasteurization of ice cream and frozen desserts, the investigators found, is laxly enforced. Private scavengers still collect about one-third of the city's refuse and deposit it in four fly-ridden, ratinfested, unregulated dumps...