Word: clay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to set the record straight. Thus, the parade of Nola-experts--including father, ex-roommate, sexologist, and lovers--rolls out. She knows that their comments--for instance, "I was the best thing to happen to Nola Darling...I was the sculptor, and she was but a piece of clay"--will be her best defense...
...these tawny September days, irony builds within irony. Personal suffering among farmers is most intense in the Southeast, where they have lost $2 billion in crops and livestock. The rains needed for the red clay failed to fall three out of the past six years. In July the unrelenting heat went to 105 degrees, then 107 degrees. Mockery came in the past few weeks when the heavens relented, bringing floods followed by crabgrass. Southern fields look green, but the corn leaves are twisted in knots, the peanut crop has shriveled...
Lake Nios, affectionately dubbed the "good lake" by local residents, no longer shimmered a welcoming blue. Instead, the waters had turned a drab shade of reddish-brown, clay having been churned from the lemon-shaped lake's depths. The village that shares the lake's name showed no signs of life, save the rescue crews. Of the hamlet's almost 1,200 residents, only four, including a woman and her child, are believed to have survived. Five miles away in Su- Bum, army troops found a scrawny chicken dancing a macabre two-step atop a freshly dug family grave...
...daughters were born while we lived in that little house -- one was nine years old and the other three when we moved into our modest FHA-financed home. The intervening years were good because we loved the work of clearing those rolling hills and turning red clay into beautiful green pastures and fields -- grabbing up roots and stumps and hauling off endless rocks. It should have mattered that we never had any money at the end of the year, but we always felt the promise and the hope of a better year next year. I worked off the farm...
They include a wig curler, a clay tile marred by a cat's footprint, pieces of dishes and pipestems, meat bones and the wreckage of the original College building, which literally fell apart in the late 17th century...