Word: equinoxes
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That's what New England decided as it suffered its third blizzard since the vernal equinox. The four to 15 inches of snow falling on the northeast marked the worst April snowstorm in years...
With the turning of the Autumnal equinox, Frenchmen observed that the cycle of natural events was moving forward as usual. In Nice, on the southern coast, leaves carpeted the countryside with flaming reds and yellows. The streets of picturesque Normandy towns echoed emptily to the sound of native voices and accents; gone were the bronzed tourists who had turned the sun-drenched marketplaces into polylingual Babels. Parisians turned up their collars and bent their heads into the chill winds as the first startling drops of snow descended from the sky. And, with the insistent regularity of the changing season, another...
...Heaven, and each regarded the bull as the sacred animal, the chief constellation of the zodiac (or circle of life). "These correspondences," says Moran, "were not accidental. They were part of a vast cosmological system . . . The slaughter of a bull at the spring equinox on altars so far separated as Ur of the Chaldees and the Valley of the Han shows common roots in a common culture...
Hardly had the delegates taken their seats and begun the formalities when up shot the hand of Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. This gesture, now considered as predictable as the arrival of the autumnal equinox, was the signal for Russia's annual demand that the Assembly eject Nationalist China and put Communist China in its place. With only a slight change from last year's line-up (e.g., Denmark switched to the pro-Peking side), the Assembly voted 43 to 11 to put off Red China's bid for another year. Vishinsky took the accounting gracefully...
...experts all agree that these are only secondary indications of the approach of the vernal equinox. The real reason, they say, is that Bruce Munro has taken his lacrosse men outside. With 50 masked men galloping around in front of Dillon waving long stocks, who could deny that spring has arrived...