Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government first heard about the Russian espionage last autumn from Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in the Soviet Embassy at Ottawa. Why he tattled, the Government did not say. But he named names, produced documents, and pointed to Nicolai Zabotin, the Embassy's military attaché, as the spy ring's head. He said that Zabotin, in the best spy manner, used a bogus name: "Grant...
...wife Valerie, a horticulturist. Their home, "Wildwood," was a warbling, fragrant inferno of prize flowers and bird-feeding stations, surrounded by a rusty iron fence. Matthew was a cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie's "pale unearthly face was . . . like some silky autumn pod." They were about as capable of love as a stuffed finch and a glass calla lily. Edith was twelve when she came to them, 21 when their death freed her. In all her years with them she had no enduring reason to believe that they felt affection or even pity...
Last week La Piaf left France to tour the cabarets of Belgium, Holland and Switzerland. Next autumn she hopes to come...
Fortunately for most of them, and tragically for a few, American college students, even those who had signed the Oxford Pledge, emptied the temples of the higher learning after Pearl Harbor, and especially after the 18-year-old draft law was passed in the autumn of 1942. Enrollment plunged to a low of 671 in the College...
...Philippines, Manuel Quezon accepted many evidences of his country's regard. Officials of the Quezon regime gave him a yacht and the use of 100-year-old Malacanan Palace, named new streets and buildings for him as fast as they were constructed. When the Philippines Congress met last autumn, after the liberation of the islands, it voted his widow a pension of 1,000 pesos a month, almost automatically...