Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Darkness descended quickly from the cloudy autumn skies. Most of the crowd couldn't see Harvard's last play--a Hail Mary pass to the corner of the endzone--because of the gloom that had engulfed the Stadium...
...York City's Central Park last week looked like an autumn painting, framed in leaves of russet and gold and brushed with soft sunlight. In the shadow of Manhattan's skyline, workers bustled around the Wollman Memorial Rink. One crew hoisted lights for night skating, while another busily polished rest stands for skaters. Someone at the controls of the music system surrendered to an impulse and played the Skater's Waltz. Said Jogger Susan Dorrity, who stopped to watch the activity: "I can't believe it's done...
After we wrote the statements, we went out onto the balcony. We stood there with our arms around each other's waists. September is autumn in Gorky, and I felt it physically when I was standing with Andrei on the balcony, feeling his ribs even through his jacket. My dear, sweet, skinny love...
Accountants and financial planners, whose busy season normally arrives near April 15, have an autumn rush on their hands. "The accountants and the H & R Blocks of this world must be rubbing their hands in glee," observes Raymond Kinzie, a senior vice president at Chicago's Lake View Bank. Indeed, tax advisers have been working overtime in a competition to develop the earliest and most detailed advice, and dozens of how-to books and pamphlets are already coming off the printing presses. Examples: the accounting firm Deloitte Haskins & Sells has published a free 96-page booklet, The Tax Revolution...
...Every autumn, the hills of Vermont turn into earth-toned peacocks, sporting a spectacular array of red, yellow and orange leaves. From afar, the hills look dappled, warm with a brown and purple and reddish hue. The closer you get, the more you see the outbursts of color...