Word: oval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conversion (kicking the oval through the goal posts from a point perpendicular to the place where the try was made) gets two more points. A try followed by a conversion is a goal. Thus, Harvard made four tries and a goal...
About this time of year certain elements of the population get sick of basketball, pinball and numbers and want to hear the patter of tiny hoofs along the backstretch. And so the guys and dolls from far and near will congregate today at the Pawtucket oval...
...Oval Room of the White House last week, President Truman read to his press conference these soldierly words from George Catlett Marshall. The President was grave as he went on reading his own written reply. Suddenly Truman grew impatient with the inadequacy of his own words. He looked up to reporters and blurted: "In my opinion, General Marshall is the outstanding man of the World...
...long, hard week for Harry Truman. Each morning he chatted and chaffed his way through ten appointments, and each afternoon he thrashed about, thigh deep, in the budget. Outside his oval office early in the week an unseasonably warm sun drenched the White House's south lawn. Inside, a hustling Truman was as busily in-season as a department-store clerk in the Christmas rush...
...midweek, Athenagoras I, the magnificently bearded, black-robed Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, strode into the Oval Room to bid an enthusiastic goodbye to his "beloved President" before departing for Istanbul to assume his new post as Ecumenical Patriarch. He kissed the President's forehead...