Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kitchen made life somewhat easier. The large number of sinks and shelves common in a kitchen were immediately useful to the potters. A large bread dough mixer pronounced dead by the Food Services received a new set of gears and has mixed over 30,000 pounds of clay in its new career. The large gas service and exhaust system is being converted to fire the gas kiln presently under construction...
Today, several of its buildings are once again in ruins. Only a huge crater in the yellow clay-colored soil remains where the traditional medicine building once stood. Four patients were killed, blown apart. Three days after the attack the staff found the head of one patient 150 meters from the crater. Hardly any sign of the building remains...
...that is. Last week, playing in the $25,000 Women's International at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., her first tournament since the U.S. Open, Little Miss Cool was hotter than ever. In a stunning upset, she blasted Billie Jean off the court. A fixture on the clay courts of Fort Lauderdale since she was six, Chris Evert was always slight and something of a hitless wonder. Her backhand was so weak that her tennis-pro father, Jim Evert, taught her to hit the shot with both hands. Though she goes far toward making up in precision what she lacks...
...first point is that black people must get a larger share of the American pie, and that to do this, they must sophisticate internal political activity and make shrewd and well-defined alliances with various parts of the splintered white political configuration. As William Clay of the Black Caucus puts it, "We have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. Just permanent interests...
First, there is lots of work involved in sawing down trees large enough to be used for lumber, but even after they are down, the stumps are still in the field and need to be bulldozed out. The land might need drainage ditching with plastic pipe or clay tile buried in the ground before it would be very productive...