Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richmond this week, two museums were showing the work of an odd painter named William James Hubard, who died there in 1862. Hubard had painted gloomy but perfectly proper portraits of Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and Richmond belles for a living; evenings he turned his hand to what he called "Gothick" fantasies. A few, like his Silent Violinist (see cut), were weird enough to recall his melancholy contemporary, Edgar Allan...
...clear, unequivocal answer to Soviet attempts to scuttle the European Recovery Program. For the 40 million Germans of Bizonia's eight states, General Lucius D, Clay, the U.S. commander, outlined a new form of economic government. The new government would have a two-house legislature, a six-member cabinet, a chief executive. It would have a central bank to issue currency and control credit. Its powers would be exercised through economic courts backed up by occupation armies. The goal: a beefing up of Bizonia's limping production. "These are proposals," said Clay, "not a dictate...
Congress to consider countermeasures. The U.S. and British commanders were prepared for the charges. "Frankfurt," said General Clay, "definitely will not be a Western German capital. It will merely be the seat of a strengthened economic and financial administration...
...next spring, General Clay hoped, the new plan-and Bizonia's production-would be rolling. An important anchor had been planted for the future stability of the European Recovery Program...
...master for a broken-down race horse. Shy, shuffling George Washington Carver, who died in 1943, had spent a lifetime performing scientific miracles. In his tiny laboratory, which he equipped from a rubbish heap on the campus, he had created hundreds of industrial products out of the common stuff-clay, peanuts, potatoes-he found about...