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Lake Success

American  

noun

  1. a town on Long Island, in SE New York: temporary United Nations headquarters 1946–51.


Lake Success British  

noun

  1. a village in SE New York State, on W Long Island: headquarters of the United Nations Security Council from 1946 to 1951. Pop: 2832 (2003 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The water releases lowered the levels of the two reservoirs: Lake Success, near Porterville, had been about 20% full.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2025

Federal records show that water releases from Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Lake Success jumped early Friday morning.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2025

The production and props designer Stephanie Osin Cohen bedazzles an already palatial Long Island mansion in Lake Success, complete with a museum-worthy collection of framed Pomeranian portraits.

From New York Times May 23, 2021

By 1979, Spahr Lacher had moved into a nondescript suburban office park in Lake Success, Long Island, just beyond the Queens border and the reach of New York City taxes.

From Salon May 8, 2020

He is the son of Janet A. Edgar and Bryan P. Edgar of Savannah, Ga. The groom’s mother, who is retired, was a medical billing record reviewer for Health/ROI in Lake Success, N.Y.

From New York Times Dec. 8, 2019

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