Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That article of the Constitution has been stretched a bit three separate times. When they took office, Henry Clay and Armistead Mason were 29, and John Eaton was 28. Rush Dew Holt was too young by more than five months and was made to wait until he turned...
...spring training, the slurs continued. Once, after watching Robinson pull off a dazzling play in the field, Rickey exclaimed to Montreal Manager Clay Hopper, "That was a superhuman play!" Hopper, a Mississippian, drawled, "Mr. Rickey, do you really think a nigger's a human being?" Hopper was also doubtful about how well Robinson would fare against big-league pitching. Before one exhibition game, former Cincinnati Reds Pitcher Paul Derringer volunteered to help Hopper, an old friend, find out. "Tell you what I'm going to do, Clay," Derringer said. "I'm going to knock him down...
...times, it looked more like street rioting than Davis Cup tennis. Indeed, the cup finals, won by the U.S. last week on the rust-red clay courts of Bucharest, seldom even resembled the mannerly game perfected in 1873 by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield as a diversion for English society...
...Radcliffe tennis team aced the Pine Manor Junior College girls, 5-0, yesterday afternoon on Radcliffe's clay-courts, in a promising warm-up match for this weekend's New England Women's Intercollegiates at Yale...
...existed in a fictional space, descended from Cubism, flattened and modulated. One may guess that De Kooning felt curious about how his figures might look off the page, when the surface violence of brushmarks was translated into the more actual violence of the hand-slapping and twisting lumps of clay...