Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fish-market queue, Zatopek stayed politely back in about tenth or twelfth place. On the tenth lap, "he picked up speed, pounded past Viljo Heino and took the lead. At about the halfway mark Zatopek began lapping the stragglers; Heino, unable to keep up, stepped off the red clay track, exhausted...
...increased airlift meant that the U.S. could not be driven out of Berlin by Russia's starvation tactics. It would give the Western Allies freedom to conduct negotiations in their own time. Announcing the decision at a Pentagon press conference, Clay was cautiously optimistic. "I don't want to minimize the situation in Germany. It is a serious situation. However, I do not think there is anybody in the world who is out looking for war at this moment...
...Stampede. At week's end, the atmosphere in Washington had lightened perceptibly. Accompanied by State Department Counselor Charles Bohlen, Clay flew back to Germany for a new series of conferences. After talking to Ambassadors Lew Douglas and Walter Bedell Smith in Berlin, Clay hinted this week that the U.S. was willing to reopen four-power talks on a settlement for all Germany. It was a concession; the U.S. had demanded that talks be confined to Berlin, and conducted on the Berlin level...
...General Clay gave emphatic evidence that the U.S. was not to be stampeded. Said he: "We are going to continue to fly our airplanes no matter what happens in the air corridors." Then, borrowing a leaf from Soviet tactics, he and his British counterpart issued an order prohibiting the movement of all trains into and out of the Russian zone. The reason: "technical difficulties...
That the West would have a few months in which to pull up its political socks became probable last week when General Lucius Clay declared that the Berlin Airlift could be expanded and continued indefinitely (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). If it used the interval to apply the lessons it had learned from the Berlin crisis, the West would come to a conference with the Russians with little reason to fear a setback...