Word: oblong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rooting section itself is not the haphazard affair of an Ivy League school. There are two oblong sections, one for roughs, the other for coeds. All the roughs wear white shirts and rooters' caps. These caps are red on one side and white on the other. Certain designated people wear the red side of their hats up; everyone else wears white. The result of this folderol is a red S on a white background. Meanwhile the girls' section is com- Pletely equipped with pompoms. These are sticks with a lot of red and white confetti on the and, Whenever anything...
Mayonnaise on Pears. In 1938, the Trapps arrived in the U.S. with $4 in pocket and a concert contract in hand. Father Wasner came along as the family chaplain, by special dispensation of his bishop. "How I hated this country at first," Mrs. Trapp says. "Oblong envelopes and mayonnaise on pears!" But the family was soon making $1,000 a concert, and she thought better of the country. "It's so big," she exclaims, "and I love to make long-distance calls!" All the Trapps are now U.S. citizens, have dropped their titles...
...This is the last of my columns," he wrote. "A column is heady stuff for the ego. The heckling of bigots is the best sport this earth affords. . . . And it is an advantage to a man of intellectual choler to have ... a weekly oblong where he can divest himself of the indignation occasioned by the antics of his brother-imbeciles. But all this, I yield, and gladly. For my column has been a failure...
...universe is oblong...
...story of the crisis was shaped by day-to-day encounters of officers who often disliked each other, by the day-to-day problems and incompatibilities of routine occupation business. Last fortnight, Berlin's Kommandatura met to transact some of that business. Facing each other across an oblong table in the large, high-windowed council room were youngish, earnest American Major General James Gavin; tall, leathery British Major General E. P. Nares; fattish French Major General Geoffrey de Beauchesne; and an able, hard-hitting Russian, Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov. Each had an interpreter at his side. Around the room...