Word: autumns
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...cold southern autumn settled in, the government ordered its 9,000 troops on the islands to dig in for a long siege. According to one senior officer, the Malvinas, as the islands are called in Spanish, were so heavily fortified that the British could never retake them. "If they intend to," he said, "it will be a butchery." In the island capital of Port Stanley, General Mario Benjamin Menendez, the newly appointed Argentine governor, was ensconced in the office vacated by Britain's Rex Hunt...
...that such a center would be "separatist" and would strengthen rather than soothe racial divisions. In an attempt to resolve the issue, President Bok appointed a committee chaired by Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, to examine the whole proposal. After a summer of research and an autumn of discussion, the committee returned with its conclusions. Rejecting the center idea, it proposed instead a Foundation dedicated to the enhancement of "the quality of our common life...
Steve Nicholas remembers when he first learned how to throw a football at age live. Virtually every American recall his initial attempts to spiral the pigskin to a supportive father in the backyard or neighborhood park on a crisp autumn afternoon...
...financial community need a laugh so badly " If anyone misses the joke, Hendra is planning a future parody of a document so familiar that it can be found in just about every hotel room in the country: Not the Bible, to be published by Ballantine Books this autumn...
They were a group of 81 riotous and impetuous youths who entered Harvard College that Autumn. In the first days, "everything proceeded peaceably and in order," reported one student, but four years later the class was to face off in a Great Rebellion, ending on the eve of Commencement with the expulsion of more than half its ranks...