Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Embassy on Wingking Lane nervously heard that the demonstrators were on the way to demand the recall of the French consul general in Shanghai, because the French had shanghaied an alleged collaborator named Tosoli (wanted by the new all-Chinese Municipal Government) , and shipped him off to Indo-China. But Gallic jitters vanished when the Embassy learned that the students had already served protests elsewhere. "Ah," said a spokesman, "everybody is in trouble, out? That's much better...
...Canned Food for overseas relief, which is on behalf of UNRRA, encourages local groups and organizations to conduct collections of canned food. For information on organizing such a collection or where to ship contributions of food, interested groups should write to The Victory Collection of Canned Food, 100 Maiden Lane, New York...
Today, at 38, he is still lean, balding, a little on the gaunt side. He works long hours, is tired when he gets home to his suite at the Park Lane, and to his trim-figured, brunette second wife, Lorelle, 33. Their living room has an impressive assortment of drawings and photographs of Lorelle, accumulated in their twelve years of married life...
...last, the sky lane over "the Rock Pile" had been fraught with danger. At the Kunming field, a mud-brick Chinese village at one end of the runway snagged so many incoming planes into wreckage that ground crews finally leveled it with bulldozers. At one stage more than 700 crashes-including many bombers and tactical aircraft-were spotted on the map at Search and Rescue headquarters in Chabua. India...
Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? O waste of loss in the hot mazes, lost, Among the bright stars On this most weary unbright cinder, lost ! Remembering speechlessly We seek the great forgotten language, The lost lane-end into heaven, A stone, a leaf, an unfound door...