Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stocky "Ben" Ford, an easygoing young man with a ready smile, has his grandfather's blue eyes and some of his restless energy. He also has a will of his own. He was the first of the grandsons (Henry II, Benson and William Clay, 22) to buck his grandfather's edict against smoking. Over family objections, he wangled his way into the Army as a private after he had twice been marked 4-F by his draft board (he is almost blind in one eye). He left the Army in January 1946, a captain in the Air Forces...
...Washington last week, General Lucius D. Clay, U.S. occupation boss in Germany, was optimistic. As he prepared for the surrender of the U.S. Army's occupation duties to the State Department next summer, General Clay reported: all-important
...While Clay spoke Germany was shaken by the biggest strikes since pre-Hitler days. The walkouts protesting food shortages, which had started in the Ruhr (TIME, Jan. 26), shifted to Bavaria; more than a million Germans in 26 cities and scores of towns laid down their tools...
...Clay's optimistic picture was not necessarily erased by these troubles. Last week's anti-American outbursts did not mean that the U.S. was losing the cold war or that many Germans were turning toward Red salvation. One demonstrator was asked by a correspondent whether he thought it would be better for the Americans to pull out of Germany. Said the worker: "For God's sake, don't leave us. Of course we strike to try to get unity and more food. Who wouldn't? But we don't want the Americans to leave...
...this operetta goes a lot further than any of its predecessors. "Utopia Ltd." has been unpopular since its first night in 1893 because it is just about as satiric as a light opera can be. Instead of attacking such innocent clay-pigeons as the nobility or Oscar Wilde or Tennyson, Gilbert allows his tricky verses to bite into the touchy and important phases of modern life. The hypocrisy behind commercialism in modern government and behind sexual morality is hit hard in this work about a utopian isle that tries to become anglicized. The king sends his daughters to be schooled...