Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampshire's Jayvee baseball team didn't even come close to snapping the Crimson's seven-game streak yesterday on Soldiers Field. Indeed, like a perfect visitor, it bowed politely before the four-hit pitching of Langdon Clay and became a 10 to 2 victim...
...Clay was in command from the start, holding the losers to single runs in the sixth and seventh innings while the home team struck for two in the first, five in the fourth, and three more for good measure in the eighth...
...provided for censorship of occupation news at the source. It covered unclassified matters "not of public interest or of a privileged nature." And individual officers were to decide what was of public interest. Newsmen promptly howled that this meant news would be suppressed. At week's end General Clay said the directive had been misinterpreted: only private correspondence such as letters from Congressmen would be withheld. But even as he spoke, the Air Force threw a curtain of secrecy around its European operations. Correspondents were left to wonder: Who threw the mud in the goldfish bowl...
...Clay Stops Jumbos...
...winners struck for four in the first and six in the second. From then on the game was never in doubt as Langdon Clay held the home team to live earned runs. Harvard capitalized on ten hits and numerous Jumbo errors. Bucky Harrison, with a homer and a triple, and Web Durant, who also homered, found Tufts' slow pitching to their liking and led the team at the plate...