Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a little trouble adjusting to the slow clay after playing indoors for a couple of days," Lindner said...
...battered old sedan wound its way along a narrow ribbon of dirt road in Clay County's back country. On the way, the former sheriff who had agreed to produce an authentic moonshiner spoke with real pride of the man's wares. "His whisky's good stuff-crystal clear," he said. "Stinks to high heaven, but if you can get past the smell, it'll set you on your head or butt faster 'n he'd blow your innards out for smiling courtin'-like at his daughters. When I was high sheriff...
...Goddamn," said Larry Loeb. "Goddamn courts," he said again as he picked himself up from the clay surface and ruefully surveyed his soiled white pants...
...first set from Harvard's Ken Lindner, Loeb dropped the second by the same score. By then, it was apparent that a Lindner victory would give the Crimson the fifth point it needed to clinch the match, and as Loeb desperately tried to gain his footing on the slippery clay, Lindner pulled him from one side of the court to the other with accurately placed strokes...
...blocks away, on Boylston St., another high-rise structure appears imminent. Soil engineers, contracted by Cambridge landlord Max Wasserman, are testing the peat and clay subsoil to determine what size structure the ground can economically support. The land is zoned both for office space and housing; given the relative surplus of office space in the Boston area, the choice will probably be housing...