Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was wonderful almost everywhere. Skyscraper, silo and factory stack stood sharply against October's bright blue sky. Nights held the first promissory note of frost. New England's sumac was already scarlet; and below the snow-dusted rimrock of the high Rockies, aspen gleamed like brass. Lakes lay dark and still and the sound of an ax or a distant locomotive carried for miles on the tranquil...
...Pouce Coupé, B.C. and other points in the Peace River district, snow and frost damaged crops...
Horace W. Frost, owner of the dwelling, summoned police after his maid was awakened by unusual noises outside the house. He went downstairs to the dining room, where he said Dresser was trying to enter through a window...
Dresser said last night that he had been drinking and had lost his way, but denied trying to break in. His own lodgings at the Cambridge Quaker House are just a few doors away from the Frost dwelling...
...were giving thanks for the mild winter. Even the blast of snow and freezing weather that had hit Britain in mid-February had been rather welcome. Said a toothless Suffolk fanner: "The crops were coming up too fast. The snow put 'em to sleep. Now, unless a May frost comes along to stab us in the back, there'll be a bumper." Sheep Raiser Ben Alderson of Kerry, Montgomeryshire, had a bumper already; one of his ewes had just produced five lambs, a circumstance considered remarkable enough to be recorded in the stately Times...