Word: circulares
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...oscilloscope" ("scope" for short), radar's screen, which is a cathode-ray tube such as is used in television. The most common type, the "Plan Position Indicator," is a circular dial with an electronic beam like a minute hand, which sweeps around the dial in synchronization with the scanning antenna, painting in its fluorescent wake a picture of what radar sees...
...Russians had planted a courtyard with red flowers in the shape of a huge red star, set against a background of smooth, carefully mowed lawn. Inside was a dark-paneled main room, furnished with a crimson carpet overlaid with a red and purple Oriental rug, a 12-ft. circular table and 15 chairs, desks for secretaries and stenographers. From the room, hallways led to private suites. Off the main room was also the main dining room, where Baptist Harry Truman, who prefers bourbon, will have to drink many a toast in vodka...
Hollywood finally got in on San Francisco's show. The movies took over the signing ceremony this week. The stage in the Veterans' Building auditorium was lowered to orchestra-floor level. Indigo blue drapes circled the room; in the center was a huge circular table with a smoky blue base and cover. A royal blue runner led through a narrow opening in the drapes. Through this aperture the delegations would file, one at a time, to sit in gold-backed Louis Quinze chairs...
...apartment, atop the Fairmont Hotel, had been lent to Mr. Stettinius by wealthy Mrs. James Leary Flood, whose fortune originally came from the famous Comstock Lode (Nevada gold, silver). The facilities included a superb view of San Francisco's hills and bay, four bedrooms with bath, a circular library with a blue ceiling, and two love seats, upholstered in green, where Viacheslav Molotov and his consultants sat during the Big Power meetings...
...desk in the Vatican when word came. Britain's King George felt it. He and Queen Elizabeth, remembering a past picnic at Hyde Park, had been looking forward to a visit soon from Franklin Roosevelt and to putting him up at Buckingham Palace. Now their Court Circular, for the first time in history, recorded the death of a foreign chief of state...