Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frost, with a gesture, stays the waves that dance...
...CHARLES FROST...
...corn crop is very short, it will be impossible to fatten enough cattle and hogs, even if prices make fattening profitable-light beef of inferior quality may be forced on the market when ranges dry up. Conversely, if the weather continues wet and the corn fails to harden before frost, there may be so much soft corn, unfit for storage, that too many cattle will be kept on that cheap feed instead of going to market...
Even the effect of weather on the nation's victory gardens, whose tiny crops collectively add much to the U.S. food pile, may be serious. Many such gardens have been damaged by rain and late frost. Should the backyard farmers fail to replant and secure good crops, there will be a heavy additional drain on commercial food sources...
Which is about what the reader does-seeing that nothing is settled, but a good deal of wit and sly wisdom have been released. The 23 pages are good latter-day Frost: the ruminative philosophic wit whose pentameters are salted with gentle satire and unobtrusive learning...