Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large proportion of the council's art purchases have been moderns, and this fact alone has been enough to set conservatives bellowing. Last year, the old guard even got a chance to bellow with laughter : the council paid out ?500 for a spiky abstraction called Autumn Landscape which proved to be so thoroughly abstract that it got printed upside down in the Festival of Britain catalogue. But doughty Horse Painter Sir Alfred Munnings, 73, onetime president of the Royal Academy, was not amused. "This thrusting of . . . third-rate opinions down the throats of a public who still believe...
...steadier professional game. The old fan now sits in his living room choosing his afternoon entertainment from a channeled selection. If he misses the late fall feeling of dump concrete, cold hot dogs and warm brandy, if he misses the "Peanuts," the "Get your colors," of a bright autumn day, he isn't talking...
...Stevens began to publish the magazine "Poetry," for which he has won two prizes. He also was awarded the Bollingen Prize from the Yale University Library in 1949. Among his works are "Harmonium," a collection of lyric poems, "Auroras of Autumn," and several plays...
...northeast, around Udine in the province of Friuli, the Communist Garibaldi brigade and the non-Communist Osoppo brigade had been fighting as one division. The Osoppos were commanded by a tough regular army officer named Francesco de Gregori, whose nom de guerre was Bolla ("Bubble"). In the autumn of 1944 Bolla discovered that the Garibaldis were playing footie with Yugoslav Communists, and were more interested in grabbing chunks of Italian territory for Tito than fighting the common enemy. When Bella's division commander, a Communist, ordered the division across the border for incorporation into the Yugoslav army, Bolla refused...
...Also, it has no musk sacs. It gives tasty milk, produces one of the softest wools known to man, and yields meat (though only if killed) which tastes like a combination of mutton and beef. Teal plans to lead an expedition to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian archipelago next autumn (when this year's crop of musk-ox calves will have reached the size of police dogs), snatch eight of the small fry from their mothers, and bring them back to his Vermont farm...