Word: ovale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After launching more counterattacks, the British announced capture of 600 Germans and 40 cannon-some of the guns 25-pounders which the Germans had captured from them. Between the lines of counterattack, Rommel's five divisions of armor and infantry contracted into a solid, sinister oval, pointed at the British center. If that oval should crunch through, the El Alamein defense line that Auchinleck hoped to organize would be lost...
...exhibition building, which housed mild-eyed Holsteins and Jerseys during the annual Hagerstown fair, was fitted with jigs, converted into a production area for riveting bomber wings. The windows had to be boarded over during the racing season: as the sulkies sailed by on the oval track across the way, workmen dropped their tools to watch...
Australian football is played 18 men to a side on an oval field whose measurements are 180 yards by 120. There are two sets of goalposts at each end of the field. If the ball is kicked between the tall center posts, six points are scored : between the adjoining posts one point. There is no crossbar. American ex-footballers say the game produces the finest and most accurate kicking they've ever seen: frequently players running full speed can drop-kick the ball between goalposts from 60 yards and more...
...first word of Pearl Harbor reached Washington at 1:45 p.m., Dec. 7. Navy Secretary Knox, the color gone from his ruddy features, called Franklin Roosevelt, who sat at lunch in the White House Oval Study, eating from a desk tray, tieless, shirt-sleeved. Said Knox: "Mr. President, it looks like the Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor...
...Oval, one of London's two great cricket grounds, is no longer used for cricketing; but Lords, where the Oxford-Cambridge, Eton-Harrow matches were always played, is planning to open its season on May 2 with plenty of service matches and a few between schools...