Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miracle worked by sun, soil, rain and the hardworking U.S. farmer was almost awesome. For four years of war, despite woeful manpower shortages and the hazards of frost, drought, insects and disease, the nation's farms had produced bumper crops with machine-like regularity. Now, in defiance of the odds, the land was heavy with crops once more. They were so prodigally good that the U.S. would be able to go on feeding half a world and still provide bigger meals for the dining-room tables of its own wellfed people...
...plot revolves around an attempt by the powers of Evil to take over the earth. Evil's chief terrestrial representatives: a brace of devils (appropriately named John Wither and Professor Frost) who administer the vast N.I.C.E., an organization to handle postwar England's technology and scientific development-ostensibly for the benefit of the common man. The champions of Good: a handful of rather painfully decent English types under the leadership and protection of the trilogy's hero, Dr. Ransom. In Lewis' sure hands the story becomes well-written, fast-paced satirical fantasy...
Horace W. Frost...
Winter's Tale. In Omaha, Dorothy Snow wisely chose Lawyer Frank Frost to plead her divorce case...
...winter, the family rose at 8, breakfasted heavily on beans, potatoes, greens and polenta (corn meal). A little after 10, when the frost was off the ground, Innocenzo started to work; he did not stop until dusk, when there was another meal of polenta, minestrone and watered wine. In the spring and summer, when the work was harder, there would be richer food: bread soaked in olive oil, sardines, pasta, greens, cheese and wine...