Word: oval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...16th Street one morning last week and picked up a burly passenger bundled up in a double-breasted blue overcoat. Escorted by two motorcycle cops, the car sped to the White House, where the State Department's Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan Jr. escorted the visitor into the oval, green-walled office of the President of the United States...
...peasant earth. In one nontypical, eggheady fancy, Songstress Patachou serenades a charmer from outer space: "A white disk that flies over the city/ A very small, shy man with big, limpid eyes and a candid face has come forth/ If small, shy men regularly fall from nowhere in strangely oval engines, we won't be so lonely when we go to heaven...
...have concluded the designers of the new Edsel were striving for the "Surprised Look." If so, they certainly succeeded with the double popeyes and the big oval which seems...
...first new "Big Three" car since Ford brought out the Mercury in 1938 is a recognizable Ford product without radical jetlike fins or bomb-shaped bumpers. Like Ford and Mercury, it presents a squarish appearance with a flat rear deck, horizontal taillights that flare up and out, an oval, uncluttered grille reminiscent of the elegant Cord of the '30s. Under its hood is a burly engine turning up 303 h.p. in the less expensive models, 345 h.p. in the top-priced line. Inside is the ultimate in pushbutton driving-a drive selector with the controls placed in the center...
...taken over the cramped, run-down town of Bath, site of an ancient Roman spa, and rebuilt it into a showpiece of Georgian architecture and a prime example of unified English town planning. The younger Wood's supreme gambit was to take one elliptical segment of the oval form that Bernini used for St. Peter's Square, and throw it boldly along the city's outskirts, with an open prospect of unspoiled countryside. Binding together the 30 individual houses was a curtain wall modeled on a Palladian façade with its Ionic columns; behind it, Wood...