Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civil war and ultimate devastation. If the opposition leaders had political sense they would go to Stockholm, form a government in exile and prepare the way for peace and a membership in the United Nations. Instead, they will almost certainly stay here to stew and get shot off like clay pigeons if they become dangerous...
...Third-seeded, Dorothy May Bundy, 27, of Santa Monica, Calif.; her first na tional clay-courts tennis championship ; by defeating fourth-seeded Mary Arnold 7-5, 6-4 ; at the Detroit Tennis Club. Daughter of May Sutton and Tom Bundy, both former national-title holders, the new champion scored the upset of the year by eliminating National Champion Pauline Betz, 7-5, 6-3, in the semifinals...
...think we had better go ahead." The die was cast. The meeting had taken just half an hour. With one characteristically casual sentence General Eisenhower loosed the fateful lightning that will stab and flicker over Europe until Nazi Germany is down. Similar conferences had been held twice a clay for three days. On the preceding Saturday the operation had even been ordered, then canceled again almost immediately, when the weather took a sudden turn for the worse. That, even the calm Tedder admitted, had been "pretty nerve-racking." But this time there would be no turning back...
They're There. In East Africa, jolly British Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, flying low over Kenya Colony's game lands, rubbed his eyes, took another peek at the herd of pink elephants below. The elephants, explained a knowing aide, had been rolling in reddish clay and they were indeed pink...
Mississippi Mud. Heidelberg, a dirt-poor whistle stop (pop. 615) in the red-clay hills of Jasper County, Mississippi, is the proud site of the largest gusher east of the Mississippi River. With nine derricks sticking up through its cow-dunged streets (one derrick is in the yard of its red-brick schoolhouse), and a tent town of oilmen and their families on its outskirts, Heidelberg is a major oil field-thanks to Gulf Refining's Lewis-Morrison No. 1. Lewis-Morrison produced 2,500 bbl. in a choked-down 24-hr, run last week, and the roughnecks around...