Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonderful winter-for penguins. Texas shivered in the blast of a rare "blue norther," Florida's pole bean and tourist crops were imperiled by frost, the temperature plunged to 22º below in Laramie, Wyo., and the entire northeast was smothered under snow that seemed to fall endlessly, making the average commuter feel his kinship to Nanook of the North...
Dedication. The ceremony moved on: Lyndon Baines Johnson rose, raised his right hand and took the oath, administered, at his request, by his friend, mentor and fellow Texan, Sam Rayburn. Poet Robert Frost, his white hair fluttering in the wind, tried to read a newly written dedication to his famed poem, "The Gift Outright." But the bright sun blinded the old (86) New Englander, the wind whipped the paper in his hands, and he faltered. In the front row, Jackie Kennedy snapped up her head in concern. Lyndon Johnson leaped to shade Frost's paper with...
Miss Raskin has sold the commercial rights to holey smoke to Dow Chemical Co. Besides skywriting, she sees a wide variety of potential uses for her discovery. Among them: 1) smokes to protect crops from frost; 2) military smokescreens and signals; 3) seeding rain clouds; 4) throwing up screens for the projection of movies (or advertising...
...Inauguration ceremonies Friday came the following slip of the tongue from a harried and wind-blown Robert Frost: "I wish to dedicate this poem to the President-elect, John...Finley...
Finley, Master of Eliot House and a close friend of the poet, said that he was not watching the television coverage of the ceremonies at the time, but was informed of Frost's mistake by his wife and several House members. He regarded it as "another Indication of Harvard's Infiltration into the government in Washington...