Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flyer advertising the event called the festival a celebration of the "moon, Autumn and the harvest" and invited Dunsterites to bring drums, bells and whistles to play at the event, celebrated in a sukkah, a traditional hut-like structure created for the Jewish harvest festival...
This is not a good time for Russia to be without a leader. There is a continuing feeling that the country has not yet turned the corner: as an in-house briefing document for the political leadership recently warned, "Russia faces a difficult autumn and winter." Discontent with the government's failure to pay back wages grows. Last week defense workers picketed in Moscow to demand months of back pay and did so with the blessing of Defense Minister Igor Rodionov...
...largest industry here is apple picking; in the autumn, the town's nine major orchards--its largest employers--draw busloads of tourists eager to pluck Macintosh and Granny apples from the ripe trees...
...largest industry here is apple picking; inthe autumn, the town's nine major orchards--its largest employers--draw busloads of tourists eager to pluck Macintosh and Granny apples from the ripe trees...
...final volume particularly, with its long autumn-of-my-years coda, King seems less interested in frightening readers than in setting them to dabbing their eyes and musing ruefully about life and death and stuff like that. It is a conclusion that may feel anticlimactic after five months in which the novel's narrator has been hinting at a more hair-raising denouement. Still, like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions. You might even say the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel...