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Word: clays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...despite the accent on the first syllable, my name is clearly a repository for the English word 'alert,' as if the name is a thousand-year-old clay receptacle with paranoia curled up in the shape of a child's skeleton inside. I myself have always been quietly alert...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Waking To Sleep | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

...clay courts are much slower than the hard courts and I had to concentrate on placing the ball where Schaffer couldn't return it," Thal said yesterday. "She wasn't coming up to the net so I took advantage of her with short drop shots...

Author: By Gilbert A. Kerr, | Title: Racquetwomen Beat Brandeis | 4/23/1974 | See Source »

...Clay Courts...

Author: By Gilbert A. Kerr, | Title: Racquetwomen Beat Brandeis | 4/23/1974 | See Source »

...there are the clay courts outdoors at Soldiers Field. They could use some work, but at least they are screened by cedars and have tapes that the years and foot-faulting servers have not eroded. So, if you can get on them, they are the ones to shoot for. Of course, some of them are reserved for the varsity...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Dwight on the Town | 4/16/1974 | See Source »

...tennis team left the clay courts on the banks of the Hudson and traveled last night to Philadelphia, where it will face Penn today on a hardcourt...

Author: By James Hines, | Title: Columbia Defeats Netmen, 7-2 | 4/13/1974 | See Source »

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