Word: autumns
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...Autumn, I discovered in September 1978, does not take New England by surprise. Summer lingers during the daytime of September and even into October, but when the sun goes down, a cutting wind signals winter's preeminence in this part of the country. Summer is but an annual interruption of the status...
...watching other people play sports; the ten-year-olds, after all, may decide that these are matters of little interest to ten-year-olds. The ballplayers and the owners, in their retracing search after missing children, will find only orphans. They will not be found in the cold autumn of Fenway Park...
Sputnik I, a tiny dot of light moving across the autumn sky, did what nothing else had done for nearly 20 years: it scared Washington. The people who knew the implications, like Astronomer John Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, America's own unborn space probe, stayed up all night linking a hasty network of aerials to catch the faint beeps of the intruder that mocked the presumed U.S. technological superiority. Power and politics were never again the same in the capital. Sputnik signaled a new superpower on the prowl. Space, for the moment, was the area of contention...
...that, Giscard's control has not been total. The present trouble began in the autumn of 1979 when Le Canard reported that the President had, as both Finance Minister and President, accepted gifts of diamonds worth more than $240,000 from the tyrannical Central African Republic "Emperor" Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who was deposed last year with the help of French troops. Le Canard also published Giscard's 1978 income tax return, pointing out that he continued to be an active shareholder in the Paris Bourse while making decisions that presumably could affect his stock prices. Then...
...season opener--pitted against 8-3 Southern Methodist University. Brigham Young led the nation in offense, directed by the country's passing leader, quarterback Jim McMahon. McMahon's numbers make stat freaks drool--284 for 445, 4571 yds. SMU has improved gradually over the course of the autumn. BYU in a wild...