Word: autumnal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frequently lovely young girls have taken me aside and shown me their virginity. At times they seem to have intuitively grasped the importance of this, but I am a scientist of society so that even if they asked me to touch this sacred state I would not. Although every autumn the Harvard Cooperative Society passes out free survival kits including many items, I know that these girls must save themselves for their husbands if the species is to survive. Besides, there is the American proverb that you "cannot have your cake and eat it too." Also, "lips that touch liquor...
...always found it difficult to write unless I gave it my whole attention. So in recent years I've been teaching in the autumn and writing in the winter. The writing, needless to say, being at my own expense. The justification for such a pleasant arrangement, if there is one, is that even students seem marginally more interested in my books than in my rhetoric...
...going to be the candidate; in this theory, the stories are merely being used to stifle speculation while Médici makes up his mind. Nonetheless, the general's selection needs some public identity before his name can be put before Congress for its rubber-stamp approval next autumn, and the decision will likely come soon. "Everyone is going to start trying to line up behind spmeone," says a longtime observer, "and if there's not a clear indication of whom to get behind, signals might get crossed. It should be clear in a month...
Barely six months have passed since British Prime Minister Edward Heath won what he called a "legal and moral" victory over many of his countrymen and his own Conservative Party. The victory was a parliamentary ruling that allowed 27,500 Asians expelled from Uganda last autumn to enter Britain. Now the government has completely reversed its stand by proposing one of the toughest, and in many ways the most racist, set of immigration rules in British history. Although opposed by the Labor Party, the new legislation is expected to be passed this week by the House of Commons, where...
...Myasnikov Institute plans to begin heart monitoring and stress experimenting as soon as equipment and trained Russian workers arrive from Harvard, "probably by late summer or early autumn," said Lown...