Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to confess that despite all the trouble they caused us, the onetime National Socialists had my sympathy, after the war even more than before; perhaps it was a captured paratrooper's obstinacy. But after returning home from captivity in the fall of 1946 my opinion began to change...
...Truman, Tobin meant votes. Tobin was Irish, a Catholic, popular in New England, strongly supported by labor. He is an able campaigner. Truman badly needed Cabinet members who were willing & able to get out and stump for him this fall. With the Labor Department shorn of most of its functions by Congress, Secretary Tobin will have little else...
...phenomenal. From Illinois to Arkansas, the cornfields nodded in silky tassel. The expected crop of 3.5 million bushels was the biggest in U.S. history, and almost half again as large as last year's disappointing yield. It could bring cheaper pork by next spring, cheaper beef by fall, 1949. It should bring down the prices of butter, eggs, milk and poultry...
...couch. What started wars, it appeared, was that everybody felt as guilty as Cain. To get rid of the guilt feelings, you had to do something violent. After having done something violent, you of course felt guilty again. After that-and so on, until the decline and fall of Western civilization...
That was just what publicity-wise Christian Dior had in mind. He had already obtained quarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, signed up a team of U.S. assistants. This fall he hopes to start mass-producing a line of about 90 dresses to wholesale in the U.S. at $59.75 and up. Though they will have "wing" and "cyclone" effects, the dresses will be a "conservative evolution" of his Paris models, designed with one eye on U.S. tastes and the other on the limitations of machine production...