Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pulitzer prize winning poet Robert L. Frost captivated a packed house in New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon as he spiced his annual recital with sly comments on the current political scene and gave a preview reading of part of his forth-coming book...
...English A, the gray-haired poet proceeded to discuss the fears which affect a man's life. Fear of God and fear of man are the main types, and they are both similar in that the individual is afraid that his "best efforts" will not be accepted, said Frost...
Commenting on the conception which most renders have of him, Frost said that he was neither a farmer nor a New Englander, except by the efforts of his publishers and an occasional coincidence...
Though it was high time for frost, temperatures stood at August levels from the Great Lakes to the Eastern seaboard. Manhattan small fry celebrated the hottest Halloween on record (81°) by donning masks-and going naked on the beach (see cut). As the hot spell wore on, thermometers registered highs of 84 in Washington, 82 in Philadelphia, 81 in Boston, 77 in Chicago, 85 in Memphis. Midwestern farmers mopped their foreheads and cursed the humidity which was delaying the corn harvest. Mississippians sighed and put off their hog killing. Thousands of city folk got out their lawn mowers...
...warm where it should have been cold, it got cold where it should have been warm. Storm warnings were flown off the California coast. Fresno had an October freeze for the first time since weather records were begun in 1887; at Sacramento the earliest recorded frost damaged tons of olives...