Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mainly he thought of the pilots -tired, wounded perhaps, running low on gas while they searched the shadowy sea for their carriers. Then he made his decision: "Turn on the lights." Instantly, on his orders, the ocean blazed with glowing beacons. Many a pilot who otherwise would have crashed into the dark ocean was saved. And Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher, who won his own wings in 1916, had won the passionate admiration of Navy pilots everywhere...
Amid these grim prospects, Soviet newspapers last week carried a brief item that, to Soviet readers, made the Amerikanskis look crazy as ever: the U.S. Government authorized farmers to destroy 20,000,000 bushels of low-grade potatoes, which Uncle Sam had paid for; the potatoes were deteriorating too fast to be collected, sold, or shipped to foreign folk...
...Panama, there were low mutterings of "Qué horror!" (Outrageous!). From Havana, Trygve Lie cabled apologies. On his whirl through the Antilles and Central America, he had missed a banquet tossed for him by the Lions Club in Panama City's swank Union Club. Some 133 guests, including the entire diplomatic corps, the entire Panamanian Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued...
Near Mont Tremblant's slopes and mile-long chair lift is the plushy Manoir Pinoteau, which features French cooking. A short run away is a more typical Laurentian resort: Gray Rocks Inn, a sprawling, homey frame house where the food is substantial, the rates low ($5 to $7 a day, including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand...
Widespread apathy contrasted with these cases. Low unit on the poll was Dudley, where only 47 out of a possible 300 votes were registered. Ballot-box custodians reported complete scorn in many cases. Yardlings plagued vote-tailliers with numerous "go to hell" comments, while among the Houses, Kirkland stood out for several charges of "clique" written in on the ballots...