Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seats, the front is badly split, which could endanger his legislative program. And it is out of such havoc that Bolivia's coups are made. Having made one himself, Civilian Barrientos is prepared for the worst. "If the government does not work," he shrugged to reporters on election clay, ''the military should intervene...
...lively master from Madrid who aims baseline volleys the way Manolete used to place swords. The winner of last year's U.S. national championship at Forest Hills, he is a precisionist without a big serve, a tactician who learned his artful game on the relatively slow clay courts of Spain. He does pretty well on the faster grass...
...viewers will head for home in the first 20 minutes or so, when Producer-Director-Star Cornel Wilde swiftly dooms three last-century white hunters and a file of blacks, attacked and captured by a horde of warriors from a tribe they have insulted. One victim is basted with clay and turned over a spit, another is staked out as the victim of a cobra...
...outskirts of Laguna Verde, Dominican Republic. The name Laguna Verde, meaning Green Lagoon, is hyperbole. A ragged hamlet located about 15 miles from the Haitian border, it is the home of 500-odd campesinos who scratch out a living by growing maize and rice in sun-baked clay that scarcely tolerates thorny scrub and cactus. Inside the Marichal bohio (palm-bark walls, thatched roof, oddments of homemade furniture), a nine-year-old boy sprawls shirtless on the concrete floor, unraveling the thread from an old silk stocking. With infinite care, he winds the thread round and round a scrap...
...game for the "parent club"-against the Philadelphia Phillies. Maybe Juan was prepared; but nobody else was-not for what followed. For the first 61 innings, not a single Phillie reached first base. After 7 innings, Marichal still had not given up a hit. At that point, Philadelphia Catcher Clay Dalrymple singled sharply to leftfield, and the spell was broken-barely. Juan shrugged, retired the next four Phillies in a row and thereby put the finishing touches on one of the most glittering debuts by a rookie pitcher in the history of baseball: a one-hit, 2-0 victory...