Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were extraordinary. She traveled thousands of miles by coach, bumped over "corduroy" roads, put up at strange cabins and hostels. She talked and listened to statesmen, slaves, Abolitionists, jailbirds, men, women & children, in the East, West and South. From New Orleans she sailed up the Mississippi on the Henry Clay to Cincinnati. She was fascinated by the "sudden and overwhelming . . . perils of this extraordinary river" where "snags," "planters," and "sawyers" might "at any moment pierce the hull." Along the huge river she saw hundreds of miles of cotton and sugar fields. "[What] vast materials of human happiness," she wrote...
...bounties of heaven and their red-clay acres the people of Walthall County, Miss, gave devout thanks last week, eight weeks ahead of more usual thanksgivings...
...idea for which many Southerners believe the South fought the Civil War-that only those governments are strong which are based on the land and its people, not on factories and the people who own or work in them. Ben Robertson is a Scotch-Irishman from the red clay hills of South Carolina, a correspondent for New York's PM and a radiant devotee of the New Deal...
...feel it unfortunate that you have printed only an article by Mr. Clay, on the International Student Conference in Washington. It seems to me that his viewpoint was too one-sided to give your readers a fair idea of the Conference...
...kind of weapon which is mighty and shall prevail. Entitled Our Secret Weapon (Sunday, 7 p.m., E.W.T.), the program has nothing secret or even subtle about it. A CBS announcer reads a blatant statement from a recent Axis broadcast, then Rex ("Lie Detective") Stout uses it as a clay pigeon to shatter with the truth. A typical exchange...