Word: autumnal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guns of Autumn" [Sept. 22] comes about as close to hunting as Pravda does to the ideals of journalism...
Spengler and Colburn exhibited equal admiration for the man under whom they served as captain in the autumn campaigns of 1969 and 1970 respectively...
...Simpson is skittering along to his first thousand yards of the fall, the Steelers' Front Four have begun chewing up opposition quarterbacks, and Oklahoma already seems a sure bet for the Orange Bowl. The nation's ballparks have been invaded by autumn, and the 1975 major league baseball season ought to be over. Not quite. The big games that count most are just about to begin. This weekend the divisional play-offs open with the Pirates playing the Reds in the National League. Oakland, champions in the American League West, had to wait for torrential rains...
...plans designed to destroy opening-day opponents were suddenly not sure what team to plot against. Television networks did not know if they would have games to televise. Bookies were beside themselves because the uncertainty was costing them big business. And millions of fans were steeling themselves for an autumn Sunday on which they might have to do something other than watch pro football...
...book won wide praise and whetted critical interest in this second work, which has been appearing in snippets for nearly ten years. If the fully assembled fiction is not the magnum opus that some had anticipated, its local colors and in delible miniatures more than justify a long autumn's read...