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Word: autumn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blame family tensions on Canada's ethnic problems. "She told each of her five daughters as they grew up that they were conceived in horror; that she could have left them in their hospital cots and not looked back, so sickened was she by their limp spines and the autumn smell of their hair, by their froglike movements and their animal wails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exiles Home Truths: By Mavis Gallant | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...fact in an opinion poll taken of the club's membership this autumn, 67.6 percent of the respondents opposed a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion. The Republican Club is conservative by Harvard standards in that it promotes the ideal of freedom by limiting government domestically and combatting the spread of communism internationally, views shared by most Americans. In my opinion and that of some two-thirds of the club, the ideal of freedom includes a right to choice on the abortion issue free from legislative coercion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Republicans Misrepresented | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...definition of a doubleheader that stayed with him. "That's when Stanley can get ten hits in one day!" Musial exclaimed. "Think of it, ten hits!" On such optimum expectations, all Cubdom is founded, even in the after-math of three season-ending losses to San Diego last autumn, when a victory in any one would have won the pennant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ten Hits in One Day! | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

They never seem to stop going long enough to think about it. From autumn to spring, they crisscross the ice and the court, and the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Masters of Their Own Game | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...addition to his school work and his wrestling Bausano has found time to lead Harvard's cheers in the fall, and was the head cheerleader this Autumn...

Author: By Danny Kahn, | Title: The Top of Their Class | 3/16/1985 | See Source »

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