Word: clod
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...local country-club greens are going to be green again, and the recent mobs of skiers will metamorphize into knickered golfers, for it is the season when "every clod feels a stir of might, an instinct within it that reaches and towers, groping blindly above for light...
...kind of painting, which put ideas ahead of emotions, was on the verge of obscurity for a century or more. The romantic French masters who followed him, from Courbet and Delacroix on, were apt to consider David more of a pedant than a painter-and a passionless clod to boot. They were wrong, as a huge David exhibition, the biggest showing of his work ever held, proved last week in Paris...
...latest procession from parlor to bedroom is the incomparable mountebank, Clifton Webb, gracefully balancing Noel's sheaf of tarts and darts. He hits the razor's edge with every gesture, shrug and intonation. Up against this kind of finesse Monty Wooley would be made to look like a blundering clod. Portraying the actor whose life aim begins and ends with his own convenience, Webb does a pungently sophisticated job of lechery and of molding the lives of the satellite circle of blustering men and urbane women who serve as his foils...
...Colonel Charles Gleim, formerly construction engineer of the Lincoln Tunnel, commander of the advanced engineers, answered: "Doing great. Only lost half a mile this month." Bulldozers, trucks, tractors slid or were knocked over mountainsides in drops of hundreds, sometimes thousands of feet. One 'dozer operator ducked as a clod of dirt hit his head, looked up and saw a whole mountaintop coming down on him. He jumped clear. His bulldozer was buried. To exhume it the engineers had to blast away tons of rocks...
...with every cent he made or could borrow. By the time he had 12,000 acres the rest of the Delta had been bought up at $10 an acre. The latecomers called him Old Man Town, and Old Man Town set to work draining his sloughs and developing every clod...