Word: autumns
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...season's first snow fell outside the Varsity Club, symbolically ushering out a glorious autumn of Harvard football, William D. Emper of Wallingford, Pa., was ushered in as next year's captain...
...Reds discovered that in the first game. On a raw autumn day at Fenway, Tiant put on a one-man show. Though he was called for one balk on his pick-off move to first base, the wily pitcher more than made up for it by tossing a five-hit shutout. Twisting and turning on the mound like a particularly well-fed cobra, the portly Tiant mesmerized the Reds with his dizzying motion, then drove them to desperation with an improbable assortment of pitches and speeds, including a rainbow curve that seemed to take 30 seconds to reach the plate...
Early in the week, the weather seemed to cooperate in cooling things off a bit. The first rain of autumn, a torrential downpour, inundated streets, chasing snipers to shelter and for a short time, at least, swallowing the sound of the guns. "God has sent his rain to put out the fire," announced Radio Lebanon's Akhawi during one broadcast. "Pray that it will also wash our hearts." It did not, unfortunately...
...football seemed to be losing its importance on this autumn afternoon at Schoellkopf, for the next contingent to take the field was not sporting pads and helmets, but rather a large banner that red, "Remember: This game is being played on stolen INDIAN LAND...
...photographer takes a picture of people at a fair, say, then he's captured something that couldn't be reproduced in tme. Ever. The people at the fair may still exist, the fair itself comes every autumn, but something appears in those photographic images that can never be seen again. And it's not exactly "a reproduction of reality" either...