Word: clay
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...grass. But the discomfort of being hacked at by razor-sharp weeds became fond memories when the trail suddenly zoomed up the mountain at a 70 degrees incline. For almost a mile straight up, there was less a path than a series of tenuous toeholds dug into sticky red clay. Several other equally steep but shorter climbs that followed made the six-mile journey a five-hour ordeal...
...liberal icon of Dances with Wolves and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is playing Jim Garrison, who as New Orleans district attorney in the late '60s prosecuted the only Kennedy assassination case that ever went to trial. And, quickly, out the window. The jury found the defendant, businessman Clay Shaw, not guilty in less time than last week's West Palm Beach jurors took to exonerate William Kennedy Smith. For the past decade, Garrison (who appears in JFK as Chief Justice Earl Warren) has been part of America's conspiracy industry -- saint to some, buffoon to others...
...Loeb, years ago labeled Bush a "clean- fingernail, silk-stocking liberal," and no amount of presidential stroking has calmed Loeb's successor, his widow Nackey, 67. To her, Bush simply "sits under an umbrella and watches the storm, hoping to come out with neither rain on his face nor clay on his feet...
...course. We're not talking about the need for purity. We all have clay feet. We fall from grace. But it's so easy to have an extramarital affair without getting caught. Context is everything. Why, right after the big success, do they start doing it? And why do they get caught? These people, such as Hart, are ragingly self-destructive...
...least in their own minds -- from other Americans. They are bound, in the words of Bill Lynch, a former newspaperman who now serves as the state's inspector general, "by our unforgiving history." It is a paradoxical chronicle of political corruption and roguishness, of fabulous oil wealth and red-clay poverty, of exile and immigration, cultural blending and racial divides...