Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel Clay Russ Atlanta...
...boat people." Her first stop was Sakaew, a center housing Cambodians 40 miles from the border. Rosalynn spent two hours at the camp, where more than 35,000 refugees were packed in makeshift lean-tos made of cloth, woven fiber and plastic sheeting spread out over 33 acres of clay like soil. During a briefing in a tent, she was told that nearly 1,000 of the refugees were seriously ill and that upwards of 400 people had died there since the camp had been opened just two weeks before...
Justly or not, the first wave of rage is usually directed at the airline for not doing more to prevent crashes. Says Sandy Clay, a survivor of the United crash at Portland, Ore., last December: "I wanted to blow up the airline. I tried to run over an executive of the company after they forced me to take sick leave and workmen's compensation." Some would like to get back to work, but feel they are treated like pariahs. Others are terrified about flying again, and shocked that employers ignore the effects of trauma and want them right back...
...buildings at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Edison's banishment of darkness. In Edison's laboratory-disassembled in Menlo Park, N.J., by his good friend Henry Ford, then crated and shipped to Dearborn along with seven railroad cars full of the clay soil on which it sat-the audience will watch a re-enactment of the scene. Madeline Edison Sloane, the inventor's great-granddaughter, will throw the switch that opened a new era. As the German historian Emil Ludwig described the original event, "When Edison snatched up the spark...
Harvard had some trouble at the second and third singles. At the two spot, Captain Meg Meyer "lost to a strong player," as Felske put it, falling to Eileen Korn, 2-6, 3-6. A similar fate befell Martha Roberts as she had trouble adjusting to the clay in a 5-6, 3-6 loss at the hands of Dina Kaplan...