Word: oval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while, President Johnson played it cool, continued quietly about the business of rounding up domestic support for his Viet Nam policies. He invited dozens of previously critical newsmen and Congressmen into the oval office for visits that sometimes ran for three hours or more, persuaded impressive numbers of them that his way is the right one. Sympathetic Congressmen were quietly advised by White House aides that the State Department was only too ready to crank out Viet Nam speeches for them to deliver. In a series of White House receptions for members of Congress and their wives, the President invariably...
...After bringing up the rear on the first trip around the 220-yard Barton Hall oval, Hewlett moved up fast on the second lap and too over the lead at the quarter-mile mark. He toyed with Navy's Greg Williams for the next mile and won going away...
Move Over, Cousin. And how about the competition? There were the 1965 factory Fords, breezing cockily around the 2½-mile oval, confident of sweeping everything in sight. Zoom! Past them flashed two 1964 Mercurys, privately entered cousins belonging to Bud Moore, a taciturn garage owner from Spartanburg, S.C. In the time trials, Darel Dieringer clocked 166.66 m.p.h. in a Ford-powered Mercury to win the pole position for the start of the 500. Somehow, Moore was getting more out of his power plants than the factory experts who built them in the first place...
...Congressman from 1937 to 1948, Johnson learned his politics from a couple of masters, Roosevelt and fellow Texan Sam Rayburn. Once, he wanted F.D.R.'s approval for an electrification project in his Tenth District, but found that every time he got into the oval office, Roosevelt dominated the conversation and waved him out before he had a chance to make his pitch. It is a technique that Johnson has since emulated with great success. In any case, Lyndon learned that Roosevelt was a sucker for photos of dams, brought along a batch of big glossy prints the next time...
...prime reasons for the freshmen's impressive times against Army is the size of West Point's indoor track, twice as long as Briggs Cage's 150-yard oval. Yet size cannot discount the remarkably fast times recorded in the sprints and hurdles by the freshmen...