Word: oval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome, new 110,000-seat stadium was literally built like Mexico's pyramids. To have built it wholly of concrete would have created a national cement shortage. Lazo got the idea of scooping back the volcanic rubble on the site into two great mounds, and laying a concrete oval shell on the cavity between. The job, carried out in 15 months, cost about one-fourth that of a concrete stadium. And because most of the oval's seats are located on the two tall slopes, most of the spectators can watch the university's football team from...
...oval test track outside South Bend, Ind., a red-and-cream Studebaker hard top whisked along the straightaway. It swept into a steeply banked curve, worked up to the outer edge and hung there as it rounded the turn with hardly any slackening of speed. Then, like a dive bomber peeling off for attack, it whipped out of the turn and shot into the straightaway again. Around & around the three-mile track the car whirled, hour after hour. Average speed for eight hours: 75 m.p.h...
Personality: A big (6 ft., 220 Ibs.) farmerlike man, with huge hands, an open, oval, red face and a direct, purposeful manner, he lives in moderate circumstances on a "cost-of-living" allowance for his work as a Mormon apostle. He is married, has two sons (the elder, Reed A., is a Mormon chaplain with the Air Force) and four daughters. After his appointment was announced, Ezra Benson said: "While I had never met General Eisenhower until today, I have great confidence in his ability and his power of leadership. Therefore, obedient to the call and consistent with the principles...
...ship which looked like "human beings." As he walked toward it, he said, the machine rose straight up at great speed and disappeared. When Squire went on to the radio station and told his story, several colleagues went to the scene, found grass and weeds flattened in a rough oval area as if a heavy wind or weight had crushed them. The Beacon, after assuring itself that Squire had a good reputation for veracity and reliability, decided to issue its state-wide call for a saucer-watch. To spread the alarm further, the Beacon wanted the Associated Press state wire...
...four more days of diving and note-taking, Spanuth found that his wall encircled an oval area 1,012 yards long and 328 yards across. Inside were irregularities that might very well be the ruins of buildings long covered by the sand. One of these buildings, Spanuth is convinced, will prove to be the palace of the Kings of Atlantis...