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clod
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clod [kläd]
(agriculture)
A compact mass of soil, ranging from about 0.2 to 10 inches (0.5 to 25 centimeters) in size, which is produced by plowing and digging of excessively wet or dry soil.


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French was always synonymous with elegance, and some of the great Paris newspapers still retain a fair amount of it; but there is also a thickening cloud of cloddishness that seems to have come over via Amerique and its movies, TV programmes, and the like, especially among the young.
Bush’s little misadventures make headlines, what they symbolize is a collapse of policy and a vacuum of competence that are far more troubling than mere cloddishness.
It can speak of reverence or indifference, rhythm or cloddishness, an awareness of space or obliviousness to it.
 
 
 
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