Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Touch of Frost. Of all the queens in Rome's market, none was tougher or shrewder than a tall, thin, hard-jawed woman in her late 20s known as Nannarella. Left motherless at five, Nannarella worked the market with her father for years, and when he went off to war she carried on alone. Nannarella had an un canny ability with figures, and an innate feel for market values. A touch of frost on a dark morning in Rome was enough to tell her that the first strawberries would be meager and command a high price. By the time...
...Person-to-Person (CBS), on which she volunteered a friend's suggestion for her tombstone ("She did it the hard way"), while Husband Gary Merrill suggested that if Bette had not become an actress she would have been president of Lord & Taylor. Best bit: Bette reading from Robert Frost's Fire and Ice ("I hold with those who favor fire...
McCarthy explains his home town as "a town where a high-school youth had his choice on a Friday night between the movies and a free public lecture by T.S. Eliot or Robert Frost...
...When Phil was six, his father Ernest, an engineer who had tried mining and farming in South Dakota and Michigan with no luck, took the family to the Florida Everglades to launch an ambitious agricultural experiment for a sugar company. After a dozen years of floods, muck fires, hurricanes, frost and insects, the company wrote off the experiment as a loss and let Manager Graham keep as much of the land as he could pay taxes on. He began dairy farming. During the Depression, Phil took a year away from the University of Florida to drive milk trucks...
...film Pygmalion, thus inadvertently giving modern literature its one memorable line characterizing the equable climate of the Iberian Peninsula. But there was nothing temperate about February's weather in Spain. The cold wave which had paralyzed southern Europe swept down over the Pyrenees and deposited a blanket of frost which chilled to the bone millions of lightly dressed Spaniards living in unheated homes and, far worse, ruined the crops on hundreds of thousands of olive, almond and citrus trees. Hardest hit was Valencia, where the thermometer registered an all-time low of 16°, and some 400,000 tons...