Word: oblong
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...tiptoed along red carpets and emerged in Grand Hall, an oblong place filled with marble pillars and gilded cherubs. There was George VI, King, Emperor, in the flesh, handing out medals and shaking hands with intrepid subjects who were queued up in a long line...
...eliminated; all remaining streets and avenues would be one-way. North-&-south avenues (except Broadway) would carry no through traffic, would be broken at intervals to permit division of Manhattan into a series of huge, self-contained blocks, each circled by a "ring street." The sides of each oblong block (about 15 present city blocks long) would be two avenues; its ends, two cross streets. This system of ring streets and one-way traffic, like a highway cloverleaf, would eliminate all traffic intersections...
...stomach, they may be able to tell which has a gastric ulcer and which has gall-bladder trouble. The patient with the ulcer is likely to be alert, dark-haired (but with an almost hairless chest), slim, long-jawed (but with delicate facial bones). He is likely to have oblong teeth, long hands, a sharp angle where ribs join the breastbone, "somewhat narrow lips, often down-curving at their angles." The patient with gall-bladder trouble is likely to be phlegmatic, blond (but pretty hairy), heavy-set with rather feminine flesh distribution, square-jawed with square teeth. He is likely...
...smile, created the semicircular assemblies "which give every member not only a seat to sit in but often a desk with a lid to bang. . . and enable every individual or group to move around the center adopting various shades of pink according to how the weather changes." In an oblong chamber, where those who support the government face those who oppose it, "crossing the floor requires serious consideration...
...form, and his subject was absorbing: a new house for the House of Commons, to replace the one lost by bombs May 10, 1941; one with bigger galleries for press and public, better ventilation, modern lavatories. But not another shape or a bigger floor. The century-old, oblong (75 ft. by 45 ft.) hall with its high ceiling, oak paneling and green, leather-covered facing benches accommodated 476 of the 615 members, and in the Prime Minister's view that was just right...