The cold breath of autumn had stricken leaves from the plant until its branches,almost bare, hung on the bricks.
VOA: special.2009.08.01
The great upthrust of the immigrant working class into the middle class after World War II, via the GI Bill, was stopped stone cold by the events of theautumn of 1973, when the October war in the Middle East led to the quadrupling of oil prices virtually overnight and the great inflation set in.