Word: autumnal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team's strong performance, like the glorious autumn foliage surrounding the field, was a beautiful but short-lived phenomenon, however. It lasted only 43 minutes and 56 seconds, when Allan Marshall spoiled the fun with Princeton's first goal of the day. Marshall maneuvered past Matt Bowyer and Boyce Greer with some quick footwork around the 18-yard line, and then sailed a shot across the goal and into the upper left corner...
George and Jerry Ford both came in with a bang in the autumn of 1974. In Washington, with the advent of a new president, our long national nightmare seemed over; and in Cambridge, the Crimson soccer team made it to the NCAA playoffs under a new coach. Two years later, both new guys are committing gaffes and floundering in their respective standings...
...that on a beautiful autumn afternoon in Hanover Joe Restic, who obviously has an in with the big man in the sky, and his team of hated Harvardites broke the hearts of all those depraved Dartmouths...
...Africa has a very interesting history," he says. "Sometimes we can be brave as hell, and sometimes just as cowardly." Or, "editing a newspaper in South Africa is like walking blind folded through a mine-field," was the way Pogrund put it in an article that appears in the Autumn-Winter '75 issue of the Neiman Journal. "It is indeed a mine field of legal hazards...
...snow-capped Chugach Mountains in southern Alaska as if on a frantic rescue mission-which, in a way, they were. The choppers were carrying crews to finish a critical half-mile link in the pipeline before the long Alaska winter sets in. Working through the rapidly shortening arctic autumn days and, under portable arc lamps, far into the lengthening night, the men slogged through ankle-deep mud to set the last 40-ft. lengths of pipe in place. It was slow, hazardous work, hampered by howling winds, rock slides and blowing snow. Drawled one grizzled pipeliner, "This here Thompson Pass...