Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toughest question had been the share of Bizonia (the merged U.S. and British zones of Germany). The first figure arrived at by OEEC was $364 million, less $90 million in export contributions to Europe, leaving a net of $274 million. General Lucius Clay, who considers Western Germany all-important to European recovery, angrily decided that the figure was too low, that Bizonia was being treated as OEEC's ugly duckling. Lawrence Wilkinson, Clay's man in Paris, flatly refused to ratify the draft agreement...
...other nations then called for help to W. Averell Harriman, the Marshall Plan's top man in Europe, who in any case was getting frantic wigwags from EDAdministrator Paul Hoffman in the U.S. Harriman visited the top economic brass in Brussels and London, and finally persuaded Lucius Clay that German-needs, however important, must be subordinated to the interests of the whole. Clearly, however, the first OEEC figure would have to be raised. The final figure agreed on for Bizonia was $414 million, less $10 million in contributed exports...
...Buicks, Cadillacs and Maybachs, the captains and the kings arrived. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky rode in a '39 La Salle with baby-blue window curtains. General Lucius Clay was late, bounded up the steps whistling a vague tune. With Britain's Sir Brian Robertson and France's Koenig, they sat down to a hard bargaining session. The meeting, though suddenly called, had not required much preparation: the conference room had been kept scrubbed and polished-just in case the military governors, who had not used it for 23 weeks, might come back. Nor had the delegates needed much...
...Grand American Handicap, the World Series of trapshooting, there are no favorites, for no champion has ever succeeded in repeating. One morning last week, competing in his first Grand American, a Wisconsin high-school boy in overalls and shooting jacket "went straight" for the first 68 clay birds, muffed the 69th, finished out his 100 shots without another miss. Then curly-haired Jimmy Rasmussen, 17, went back to his job as scorekeeper for other contestants, to help pay his way to the meet at Vandalia, Ohio...
...cutting a narrow trench 80 feet from the mill, Godfrey hopes to find traces of the "ambulatory walk" of the Norse church. Uncovered thus far: a 1696 King William III penny, a lead musket ball, an old brass button, a clay pipe...