Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven throughout the season, worked this fall in preparation for his last season here. Lane Barton, who filled the number six slide, has not been on the river thus far, but should be available to Bolles for another three seasons, while Paul, Knaplund, at five, rowed steadily through the autumn and has another two years in front of him. Soccer claimed Mike Scully, number four oar in the '46 boat, during the last couple of months, but he has a full three years to come. Tom Perry, in the number three position last year, was lost to the Crimson...
Thanks to a bountiful autumn harvest, they would have from 1,500 to 1,700 calories a day (a little more than the U.S. zone of Germany). But housing would be as great a problem as it had been in the first confused winter of defeat. The work of rebuilding Japan from its rubble had barely begun. Reconstruction, hampered by lack of materials and tools, by strikes, and by requirements of the occupation force, stood at only 13%; industry at 30%. The occupation army required 90% of the cement and metal piping, much of the wiring, nearly...
...terraced slopes of northern Japan, the snow was already deep. In Tokyo and to the south, an early frost sparkled on the richly tinted autumn leaves. But as the trees shed their leaves, Japanese shed their kimonos, one by one, to sell for food. They even devised an ironic name for their wretched existence: takenoko, after the bamboo sprout which peels, layer by layer...
...Revolution which brought the Bolsheviks to power. Even Franco Spain was faithful in its fashion (see above). As usual, the most notable celebration was in Moscow. Notably absent: ailing, aging Joseph Stalin, 66, whom rumor put at Sochi on the Black Sea. where he rested for two months last autumn...
Squirrels doggedly went on gathering nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony...