Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westward from the man on the hospital terrace swept the Rockies, flecked with the gold of the cottonwoods and aspens, beneath cloudless autumn skies. To the northwest stood Longs Peak, 14,255 ft., and to the southwest Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft., their shoulders cloaked with snow; on the way out to the horizon, amid intervening tiers and hollows, lay places like Clear Creek, where Colorado's first important gold strike was made in 1859. ("Panned out eight treaty cups of dirt," the prospector said, "and found nothing but fine colors...
...play all four hands in turn. From the President's grandchildren came a book of crossword puzzles, another book called 150 Ways to Play Solitaire, and a phonograph record of a monologue, What It Was, Was Football. In the President's room bloomed red roses and autumn flowers, picked from his mother's garden at Abilene. Kans...
...nation at peace was not, it seemed, the revolutionary's cup of tea. Last month, turning over the premiership to his trusted lieutenant, Pham Van Dong, "Uncle" Ho withdrew from the public eye. He even neglected to send his usual "Dear nephews and nieces" greeting to the mid-autumn festival...
...almost always hitting away; their strength is seldom wasted in sacrifices. Given a well-tagged ball, anyone on the team will gamble and go for extra bases. If Smokey Alston worries about any single defect, it is Dodger nonchalance. His team won the pennant too soon, coasted into autumn carelessly dulling the fine edge that made them champions. Then, there is always that oldtime habit of losing to the Yanks in the series...
...wits back: "I haven't an excuse in the world. Marciano is far and away the strongest man I've encountered. You can avoid him some of the time, but not all of the time." ¶ A few weeks earlier than usual, big-league baseball began its autumn managerial shuffle. After eight years, Lippy Leo Durocher and the New York Giants parted company. Everyone was still friends; everyone was very happy-or so Leo and Giant President Horace Stoneham insisted. When asked if he was through with baseball, Leo was more coy still. Would he move...