Word: autumns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hearty: a breakfast of fried cornmeal mush with chicken-giblet gravy and sausages, a dinner of spareribs and sauerkraut, corn bread and black-eyed peas. The weather had been perfect: bracing during the day, quite cold at night (12° above zero one night). More than a trace of autumn tanged the air: the Rocky massif was already splotched with golden aspens, and on the highest peaks the season's first snow fell...
...almost always hitting away; their strength is seldom wasted in sacrifices. Given a well-tagged ball, anyone on the team will gamble and go for extra bases. If Smokey Alston worries about any single defect, it is Dodger nonchalance. His team won the pennant too soon, coasted into autumn carelessly dulling the fine edge that made them champions. Then, there is always that oldtime habit of losing to the Yanks in the series...
...this be the beginning of ... normal good relations between Germany and the Soviet Union," said Adenauer to the beaming reception committee of high Soviet officials. But even before the spoken formalities and the strains of West Germany's Deutschland Lied were carried off by the brisk autumn wind, tough...
...included at times vegetation and animals more at home in the Amazon (Davies also served in the tropics) than along the St. Lawrence River. But at his best, he caught the primitive pioneer settlements, magnificent waterfalls, foaming rivers, the awesome virgin forests touched with the full richness of Canadian autumn, and recorded them with a freshness and charm that extends deft draftsmanship into the realm...
...prosperous 1955, with Americans earning bigger wages, going more places, buying more goods, spending more money than ever before, the season's usual slump never came. As U.S. businessmen quickened their pace last week for September's bracing upturn, all signs pointed to the best autumn ever...