Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the profit is going to Latin America's already café-riche class of exporters, brokers and large plantation owners. But in some countries, coffee is also grown by peasants who farm minuscule plots. Since a frost in 1975 shriveled more than half the coffee trees in Brazil, buyers have been bidding for extra beans at prices that have raised some farmers above the subsistence level for the first time in their lives. In Haiti, where malnutrition is as common as sunshine, the peasants scratch out a hardscrabble living raising coffee in tiny backyard jardins, drying...
...knowledge of poetry can become a useful tool in the game of practical politics, he said--Frost's poems about New Hampshire indicated to him that the state had an independent and unpredictable streak...
...questions he will put to former President Nixon, says British Talk-Show Host and Entertainer David Frost, the one he is tempted to ask first is "Why didn't you destroy the tapes?" Television audiences across the U.S. and abroad will hear what Frost decides on May 4 when the first of the four 90-minute David-and-Dick shows is aired. Chatting about the interviews on WNEW-TV'S Friends of . . . show, Frost, 37, recalled how he informed Nixon that he wanted the shows to appear before the slow summer TV season. Referring to his farewell speech...
...anthology of lyric poetry including poems of WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, ROBERT FROST, EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, T.S. ELIOT and RAINER MARIA RILKE...
...frost-kissed oranges, which turn dry and mealy, can be picked fast enough, they can still be used for concentrated orange juice. But the branches are brittle, the pickers' fingers are numb, and an orange that falls may well be too damaged to ship as fresh fruit...