Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ahead lay 20 routine years of polo, occasional fishing trips, Army schools, engineering duty. In 1940, when the war in Europe began to stir the Regular Army from its doldrums, Lucius Clay was a major...
...like the man: he was not the type for anecdotes. He was the young est of U.S. Senator Alexander Stephen Clay's six children (five boys, a girl...
...concrete road west of Shuri castle had been smashed by shelling; eleven days of rain had turned Okinawa's red clay into hip-deep sludge. Confidently the Japanese commander moved his troops over to the east side of the castle, certain that no troops could attack his left. He underestimated the webfoot qualities of the U.S. marines...
Memphis Bound (lyrics & music by Don Walker & Clay Warnick; book by Albert Barker & Sally Benson; produced by John Wildberg) was first conceived as a swing H.M.S. Pinafore, later converted into an extravaganza about a Negro troupe who put on Pinafore to get their grounded showboat (the Calliboga Queen) off the Mississippi mudflats. But their version proves too much for their lady producer, and she bangs down the curtain...
...Stout Castle. The broken, ugly terrain-reddish clay, volcanic ash, coral outcroppings-was the kind the burrowing Japs like. Among the ridges, spurs, knobs and gullies were innumerable caves and underground passages, to which the Japs added their own dugouts and pillboxes. In one tunnel they had laid narrow-gauge rails to move artillery. They moved into the stone tombs in which Ryukyu Islanders bury their dead, and reinforced them with concrete...