Word: clays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relax our rationing system when you have a shortage of goods?" raged one officer. Replied Erhard jubilantly: "I have not relaxed rationing; I have abolished it." To his countrymen he proclaimed: "The only ration ticket now is the mark." He asked for an interview with U.S. General Lucius Clay. "Herr Erhard," said Clay, "my advisers tell me this is a terrible mistake." Answered Erhard: "General Clay, pay no attention. My advisers tell me the same thing...
...north to pillage.* When he withdrew, after raids in 598 and 587 B.C., the people of Gibeon must have found their city wrecked and the pool contaminated. Apparently they tumbled in boulders from the town's wreckage, then filled the well's broad stone shaft with earth, clay and bits of pottery...
Opening the studio doors, he revealed easels and canvases, wire frames and modelling clay. Each room is painted a different color and white woodwork accents the drawings, oils, and primitive handtools placed about the walls. In one room, a tall model awkwardly finished undressing while one of Lawson's pupils adjusted her easel and brushes...
...even the Pentagon's boasts of nuclear strength now fall flat on European ears. Russia's disclosure of her possession of a 5000 mile intercontinental missile, unanswered by a similar announcement from the U.S., has led some to believe that the American giant may have clay feet. Subsequent U.S. announcements of various weapon advancements have only corroborated European fears that America is trying desperately, and perhaps vainly, to close the technological gap created by the Soviet missile breakthrough...
...extraordinary visit with Pablo Picasso, whose serene and massive figure illuminated the screen with almost as much distinction as his art. In his cluttered studio in the south of France, the 75-year-old artist sketched a town scene, fashioned a big-beaked bird from a freshly molded clay vase and made a figure on the floor from a clay pipe, broken bits of pottery and an olive branch. But he never uttered a sound. "I do not talk," Picasso had told NBC. "I only paint." In a fascinating finale, Pablo, bare-chested and wearing soiled black shorts, clambered...