Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dislocated. In Clay County, Mo., a bewildered resident consulted two county maps, found his street listed as North Terrace, Fortieth Ave., Devon Road, Thirty-Sixth St., Piburn Road, Fifth St., called for help...
...countries agreed to in August. Nor has the State Department even begun to spell out the specific U.S. objectives under the Byrnes policy. The only effort to tackle revitalization of the Ruhr so far has been the interzonal agreements on communications and administration, between Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and the British, which were announced in Germany last fortnight...
Only a Blueprint. General Clay's broad operational instructions have been unchanged since last year's Joint Chiefs of Staff directive 1067, which is nothing more than a blueprint for faithfully executing the Potsdam agreement on the assumption that Russia, France and Britain were going to do the same...
...diggers probed the relics left by this simple people, they found unsimple things. The La Ventas were remarkable artists, who carved hardest jade into human figurines, ornamented ax heads, beads, earplugs, pendants. They were excellent potters, too. Example: a baked clay whistle in the form of a realistic bird, which gives the cry of the bird it represents...
...Other clay figures showed animals mounted on wheels. This discovery thrilled archeologists. They had thought that the wheel, basic device of mechanical civilization, was unknown in the New World. But the La Ventas had wheels some 2,000 years ago, or had at least seen representations of them. How they learned about wheels, and why their knowledge died with them, remains a fascinating mystery...