Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Lucius Clay . . . He embodies what I like to believe America is in Europe, firm, patient, quite capable and basically tough...
...Berliners called it the "opera government." General Lucius D. Clay, the U.S. commander, called it a "rump government" and refused to recognize it. The political division of Berlin into two cities, begun last June, was now complete...
...some fine comedy acting by the Idler group. Barbara Tuttle's Millimant was very clever, warm, and extremely attractive. The Witwoud of Peter Davis-Dibble seemed to carry over best into modern dress and he was particularly funny in his drunk scene. Carol LaCascio, as Foible, and Harris Clay as Sir Wilful Witwoud were especially good. The part of Lady Wishfort was a disappointment, both in the too-subtle way the Lady's name was pronounced and in Nancy Rodriguez's unsubtle portrayal...
...Minister Schuman, who has much more understanding of the Anglo-U.S. position than most Frenchmen have, called in the British and U.S. ambassadors, handed them a protest. In Washington, French Ambassador Henri Bonnet protested to Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett. The French got a promise that the Clay-Robertson action would be immediately reviewed by Washington and London...
...order to his artillery commanders. Within a few minutes two spots in the valley blazed with the flash of cannon fire; tracers from the 37-mm. guns on Li's tanks cut red streaks through the blackness as they arched in a slow trajectory like monstrous lighted clay pigeons. Less frequently the huge muzzle flash of 105-mm. guns ballooned from the plain, hung for an instant, then blinked out. After an hour, the barrage slowed down. "Now the infantry," said Li. "Come, we will...