Word: autumns
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...cobbler at his bench, the ploughman trudging the furrow-all learned to know the awful smell of burning human flesh, the flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump. Mingling with the steam of washing day, or with the reek of autumn bonfires, or polluting the sweetness of June, that stench . . . even in a cruel age, left behind it a memory and a disgust...
...full autumn of hard work, long afternoon sessions and frequent disappointments goes on the line this afternoon for both teams. The Yale season started last Saturday. The Harvard season starts at 1:30 p.m. and most Crimson supporters hope it will last for three hours...
...Roosevelt's prose has the unique faculty of leaving the mind stumbling about in a forest of wavering, autumn-tinted meanings ... So the discovery of Hiss's "alleged" treason was less damaging to U.S. prestige than Senator McCarthy's investigations? . . . Or does the word "alleged" indicate that Mrs. Roosevelt does not believe that Hiss was a traitor? . . . Meanwhile, she remains unchallenged mistress of the dangling sequitur...
...world was as filled with color as a forest in autumn. NBC showed a satisfying colorcast of the opera Carmen to hundreds of invited guests in Manhattan, and last week followed it with the first closed-circuit broadcast from New York to Hollywood, where a group of moviemen were unhappily impressed by the vivid picture and surprisingly fine texture of color TV. Dragnet began shooting its films in color, and Bob Hope issued a casting call for the "most colorgenic girls in America" to appear on his first color TV show. Industrial designers Lippincott & Margulies moved into...
...hectic weekend quietly closes. Of a Sunday afternoon--between Saturday's passes and Monday's exams--couples forsake the falling November leaves for a secluded nook. They leave the pale autumn light outside, expecting warm fires and mellow wine...