Word: autumns
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...slogged your way through an exhausting week of work and even the alphabet seems beyond your realm of intellectual comprehension. Or perhaps it’s that vague, disquieting sense that nature, despite its splendor, no longer resonates with you; that the brisk, crackling intimations of autumn have failed to permeate your senses. At any rate, you’re listless, apathetic. You feel, in a word, gross...
...songs such as ?When This Cruel War Is Over?(1863) still have a melancholy resonance even today: ?Weeping, sad and lonely, hopes and fears, how vain!/ When this cruel war is over praying then to meet again/ When the summer breeze is sighing, mournfully along/ Or when autumn leaves are falling, sadly breathes this song...
...broadcast systems for a while, for fear of spooking people. Candlelight vigils brought people out of their homes to the town square, then a plane rumbled overhead. Inhale, look up, follow the lights till they disappear, exhale and return to the prayers. It's hard to have the perfect autumn wedding when all the out-of-town guests call to cancel. Life insurance policies were selling fast...
Last week, as the Harvard community banded together in candlelight vigils, UW had a vigil of its own, and other student-athletes cried and prayed together. Hundreds of people crowded close in the chilled autumn air, trying to make sense of their tragedy, to cope with such a vicious personal blow...
...might want - candy, fruit, chocolate, even ice cream. But you've got to draw the line at a mooncake made from ... last year's mooncake. Press reports from Nanjing last week accused a now infamous local bakery of filling its sweetmeats - mooncakes are traditional fare for October's Mid-Autumn Festival - with moldy stuffing left over from 2000. China's health ministry has ordered a nationwide inspection of mooncakes. Hope somebody remembered to call the producers of When Chefs Attack...