Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police sirens moaned close by, Parisi cried: "Mamma mia, mamma mia, let me out of here." He jerked open the door and ran. Parisi dropped out of sight for ten long years. Last autumn the Pennsylvania State Police found him at last; he was napping on a bed surrounded by crucifixes and holy candles in his hideout house in the anthracite coal fields...
Another was the opinion that it was the West itself which provoked Russia into her truculent attitude-through such steps as the Truman Doctrine-and that it was not Stalin but Churchill, in his famous Fulton speech, who "rang down the Iron Curtain." Lattimore's policy memorandum last autumn to the State Department, which McCarthy cited as evidence of Lattimore's disloyalty to the U.S., did not prove any such thing as disloyalty, but it did prove that Lattimore was still on the side of a soft policy that could result only in a Russian victory in Asia...
...place," onions were indeed running wild. So many carloads of onions poured in and jammed railroad yards and warehouses last week that the Association of American Railroads slapped an embargo on further shipments. Reason for the glut: farmers had held their onions off the market in hopes that last autumn's cloud-high prices would reach the stratosphere (TIME, Sept. 26). But when the prices started to drop, farmers hurriedly dumped their holdings. Under the avalanche, prices collapsed. From a high of $5.05 a 50-lb. sack last September, onions skidded to 44? last week, lowest price since trading...
Coach Harvey Love has now pared down his autumn group of 60 freshman crew aspirants to a working squad of 27 men. By rowing on the river all fall, and in the tank in the winter these 27 have earned the opportunity to row twice a day throughout vacation...
After the airline crash in Quebec last autumn which took the lives of three Kennecott Copper Corp. executives and 20 others (TIME, Sept. 19), investigators turned up shocking evidence. The crash was no accident; it was planned murder. To get rid of his wife, who was aboard the plane, a jeweler named Albert Guay had planted a dynamite bomb in the freight compartment. Last week a trial jury took just 14 minutes to find Guay guilty. The sentence: death by hanging...