Word: ovale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he rose unhurriedly to his feet in the Oval Room, Harry Truman told his weekly press conference that he had none of the usual announcements to make. Then the questions began...
...mild December night for Washington-cool and damp. In the big, oval study on the second floor of the White House, a cheery blaze crackled in the grey marble fireplace. Franklin Roosevelt leaned back in his big leather easy chair. Up & down the cluttered, cream-walled room, Harry Hopkins paced nervously. History was expected...
...Eggshells do not fall apart at the slightest tap of a spoon because the oval shape distributes the force of the blow around the whole egg. The Navy's Quonset huts-similarly curved-have survived winds of more than 100 m.p.h., including Williwaws in the Aleutian Islands...
...Hour. When the big news came at last, the President called his Cabinet and the top men of the war bureaus. Anotner call went out at the President's order to frail, white-haired Cordell Hull. As the official family gathered in the Oval Room, the President beamed his greetings...
...Switzerland. In other years, such famed international bankers as Germany's Hjalmar Schacht and Walter Funk, Britain's Montague Norman and Sir Otto Niemeyer, Italy's Dottore Raffaele Pilotti, Japan's Hisaakira Kano, and the U.S.'s Thomas McKittrick had met around the huge, oval table. But this year may be B.I.S.'s last: several nations would like to have it dissolved, and even whisper that there would be scandals if the full record of its wartime deals with the Axis became known...