Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearty: a breakfast of fried cornmeal mush with chicken-giblet gravy and sausages, a dinner of spareribs and sauerkraut, corn bread and black-eyed peas. The weather had been perfect: bracing during the day, quite cold at night (12° above zero one night). More than a trace of autumn tanged the air: the Rocky massif was already splotched with golden aspens, and on the highest peaks the season's first snow fell...
...this be the beginning of ... normal good relations between Germany and the Soviet Union," said Adenauer to the beaming reception committee of high Soviet officials. But even before the spoken formalities and the strains of West Germany's Deutschland Lied were carried off by the brisk autumn wind, tough...
...included at times vegetation and animals more at home in the Amazon (Davies also served in the tropics) than along the St. Lawrence River. But at his best, he caught the primitive pioneer settlements, magnificent waterfalls, foaming rivers, the awesome virgin forests touched with the full richness of Canadian autumn, and recorded them with a freshness and charm that extends deft draftsmanship into the realm...
...prosperous 1955, with Americans earning bigger wages, going more places, buying more goods, spending more money than ever before, the season's usual slump never came. As U.S. businessmen quickened their pace last week for September's bracing upturn, all signs pointed to the best autumn ever...
...Name's the Same). It has persuaded CBS to take on its creator and owner, gimmick-loaded Louis (Quiz Kids, Down You Go, Conversation) Cowan as a top-level executive. It has set network executives to brooding darkly over the question of what The Question will do this autumn to such giants as I Love Lucy, Jackie Gleason, Disneyland and George Gobel, let alone to plans for increasing emphasis on quality drama...