Word: vernally
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Ordinarily the turf at Soldiers Field is ploughed by leather-cleated soccer players for only a few months in the fall, but this vernal season finds the Crimson booters getting in some overtime kicking...
...brown nectar. Why, it's better than Jake Wirth's dark, and you can save the subway trip." He held his glass up and examined its rich molasses-like color in the light. The strains of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps revamped by Freddie Martin began to permeate the vernal atmosphere...
Behind the rail guarding the summit of Yosemite's misty, snow-swollen Vernal Falls, 21-year-old Orville Loos, just out of the Navy and still in uniform, gaped -with the other tourists, listened to the mighty cataract pounding fearsomely on the jagged boulders 320 feet below. It would be something to remember when he went home to Dayton, Ohio, and the new electrical-appliance shop his parents had bought...
Save France! Up from the vernal south the gold-and-plaster Virgin moved triumphantly. Twentieth-Century France hailed the religious procession, a war-delayed commemoration of the Virgin's 1,300th anniversary. The faithful were as reverent now as on that miraculous Sunday in 638 when the fishermen of Boulogne found the Virgin, then a prow on an unmanned ship that sailed to anchor despite the harbor's shoals. They were as ardent now as when mighty Charlemagne, or splendid Francis I, or Sun King Louis XIV made pilgrimage to her shrine...
...world less likely to be moved by "one impulse from a vernal wood" than by a burst from a bazooka, Author Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) has seen fit to issue a new selection of the poems of William Wordsworth...