Word: clays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...along with his G.I.s, had to do most of the staying was a general from Georgia with sad brown eyes, courtly manners and a steel-trap will. He was General Lucius DuBignon Clay, Commander of U.S. Forces in Europe, and he had already made his voice heard. When the Russian squeeze on Berlin first began, he said: "The American troops under my command will use force of arms if necessary. I have firmly made up my mind that I will not be bluffed...
...century of Southern estrangement from the nation was over. A remarkable political journey-one that led in only two years from the red clay fields of south Georgia to America's highest office-was at an end. Jimmy Carter, at 52, was the 39th President of the United States...
Without Ruhr coal, and without the German industrial output which depends on Ruhr coal, the rest of Europe cannot recover. To help remedy that paralysis, the U.S. last week issued a new directive to Germany's occupation chief, General Lucius D. Clay, superseding Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067 (which had directed the U.S. commander to take "no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany"). The new directive said: "An orderly, prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany." The U.S. suggested that the permissible level of industry in Western Germany be raised...
...Picasso's 26-ft.-wide mural of protest against the fascist bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, to a cluster of peg dolls he painted for his daughter Paloma. Paintings, drawings, collages, prints of every kind, sculpture in bronze, wood, wire, tin, paper and clay; there was virtually no medium the Spaniard...
...Clay was the natural person to approach for the professorship, Lamberg-Karlovsky said, adding that the philanthropist had already funded a junior professorship in the department...