Word: oval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Locked Door. Carefully and laboriously over two seasons, Perrot uncovered the Horite village. All the rooms were deep underground, reached by vertical shafts about ten feet long with steps and handholds cut in the hard dirt. Each oval habitation, some 20 feet long, was connected with others by long tunnels. Most extraordinary thing about the Horite dwellings was that they were completely furnished. The entrances were blocked up with stones (the ancient equivalent of locking the door), but everything was in as perfect order as if the inhabitants had just stepped out after tidying up after dinner. Perrot does...
Burned Babies. Perrot could even get some idea of their religion. Its rites seem to have centered around decorated pebbles, symmetrically arranged. In the caves, he found cross-marked pebbles laid out in an oval. Pebbles painted with dots and lines were laid out in a crescent. He thinks the Horites believed that the pebbles contained the spirits of their ancestors. (They certainly cared little for the ancestors' bones; they tossed a few loose bones of their dead into disused storage bins.) Their religion must have had at least one grisly feature. The partly burned skeletons of four infants...
...Shetland Islands were covered with storm clouds, but southern Britain was reasonably clear, and millions of Britons saw the partial eclipse. Most spectacular view of totality was from 21 Canberra jet bombers of the R.A.F., which flew so high (50,000 ft.) that the shadow looked like an oval black shape in the cloud deck far below...
...race at Ascot in July, which would mix the Dancer with the best on the other side of the Atlantic. At Ascot, the Dancer would have to race clockwise instead of counterclockwise, on turf instead of dirt, on a course that runs irregularly instead of on a neat, flat oval. The last bend of Ascot's "old mile" rises more than 40 feet in three furlongs. To run the course's ups & downs, a horse must be able to accelerate, slow down, accelerate on demand. Next week, Owner Vanderbilt and Trainer Winfrey plan to fly to Britain to case Ascot...
...Steel Community, Jean Monnet was in Washington seeking a little help for the six-nation Schuman Plan combine, which is the only supranational organization now doing business in Europe.* Dapper, hard-working Monnet is an idealist-he wants a united Europe-who talks in practical plans. Around a large oval table in the State Department, Monnet and his advisers conferred with Secretary of State Dulles and Treasury Secretary Humphrey...