Word: fall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall of 1954, when Buttrick's appointment was announced, the post of University preacher had been vacant for one and a half years. Despite speculation during the previous spring that the new head of memorial Church would have no teaching duties, Buttrick also became an active professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Even Front Runner Jack Kennedy has been known to sigh in private that he might wind up on the short end of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. In the fall of 1959 Adlai Stevenson, twice victorious nominee, twice defeated presidential candidate, has as great a potential for the Democratic nomination...
...English countryside is charged with the tensions of an approaching air raid, Shaw achieves for a time a kind of magic. But even here, more in the style of an old morality play than an English Cherry Orchard, it is the dawdling leisure class Shaw spares when the bombs fall, and the thief and the tycoon that he kills...
When autumn temperatures fall toward the freezing point, wise motorists put antifreeze in their radiators. Many wise insects do much the same thing, reports Biochemist Fred Smith of the University of Minnesota. What's more, their antifreeze is glycerol (glycerin), a chemical that closely resembles the ethylene glycol that is the basis for many antifreeze brands...
...trip to Australia and Asia, last spring more than 80 followed him to Russia, eliciting from the Vice President the complaint that he could not easily hold background briefings, a Nixon practice, for so large a number. And when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the U.S. this fall, so many correspondents and cameramen - 300-odd in all - dogged his trail that they sometimes seemed more to be making the show than covering it (TIME...