Word: frosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief reason: a frost last July, which wiped out almost one-third of the crop...
Near the Heart. As far as it went, the story of Germany's rise in 1953 was good for the democracies and bad for Communism. But other years and other men will determine whether there will be a happy ending. Konrad Adenauer is 78 this month. In the frost of his rigid, imperious command over machinery of both party and government, few sprouts of leadership have been able to grow. "How long I can hold my present office no one can tell," he said. "Even I cannot. My health and strength are excellent. Nothing, however, is nearer my heart...
...beginning with an early-morning stop at the food markets. At her East Side Manhattan apartment (where the maid does almost all the cooking), she stocks 3,000 cookbooks, keeps ten filing cabinets full of notes ("If I'm writing on blueberries, I look into my file. Robert Frost. If I want to quote. I can quote"), is now working to complete a book of her own titled How America Eats. Clementine knows the subject well because she often jumps around the country, poking into other people's kitchens, writing about everyone from a sausage stuffer...
Poet Robert Frost, 78, whose verses sing the praises of simple living and hard work (The Axe-Helve), delivered some prosy philosophy in Berkeley, Calif.: "I never thought much of work. I'm not industrious. I have nothing to 'retire' from. My life has been one long vacation." Of some of his compatriots who have fled the U.S. through the years, in search of new artistic freedoms. Frost said: "(I never felt the call to be an expatriate. But I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell...
...midwestern parts of the country are almost entirely frozen. Below zero temperatures were reported yesterday from Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and North Dakota. Frost was reported in most of the southern states, and temperatures dipped to 35 on the southern tip of Florida...