Word: ovale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his training moves over the huge oval he had shown speed and stamina, but neither boot nor bat could budge him past a spot on the clubhouse turn where a friendly side road beckoned towards his stable area. He had made plain his stand, or so he thought...
With patient good humor Harry Truman repeated a familiar little scene over & over again. Seated at his desk in the Oval Room he scrawled a few letters of the presidential signature, picked up another pen, squiggled on, changed pens again. When he finished he handed them to the beaming group clustered around him while cameras recorded the ceremony...
Then he appointed a commission to study the real issue. Last week, around an oval table in Manila's fiar Palace, five landlords and ten sharecroppers met with Roxas and two congressmen. In four hours the battle was over, with everybody happy. The landlords offered to give the peasants 70% of the crop, provided they pay all expenses. The peasants preferred to take only 55% if the landlords would provide tools and carabaos...
...Into the oval, colonial-style conference room in Ottawa's Parliament Building strode nine determined members of the Canadian Congress of Labor's potent Wage Committee. Before bustling, bumbling Labor Minister, Humphrey Mitchell, they laid a demand that the Government relax its vise-tight wage control. The C.C.L.'s potent argument: the wave of strikes which threatens Canada...
Starting at 4 o'clock in the Oval Room, the contest will go through as originally planned, with but one change in the program: in all probability the 'Poon will only send five girls against the Rose chorus-line...