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Word: clayey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Ford out along Joy Road to the small family cemetery beside a four-lane highway. Henry Ford had never ridden comfortably in any car but one of his own make; he wouldn't have liked it. They lowered the coffin into a hole in the wet, clayey mud. The rain came down in buckets while the police hustled 20,000 sightseers on their way and opened the highway again to traffic. The cars rushed past, filling the night with the smell of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Detroit Dynast | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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