Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water is imperiling winter wheat and other crops; fears are growing that hydroelectric power will decrease in the spring. Water is already being rationed in parts of California (see following story). In Oregon, forest fires have broken out. "Some say the world will end in fire," wrote Robert Frost, "some say in ice." Last week Americans had their choice of disasters. If that is not enough, they soon may undergo trial by water. When the massive snowdrifts melt in the warming weather, torrential floods are expected to sweep many parts of the country...
...more than one hundred years ago, the family beverage was made from a mixture of parched corn and yams, as the federal blockade kept coffee and tea from the Confederacy. Now we are urged to drink tea instead of coffee. This time, however, come King George, General Grant or frost, my family will drink what it wishes. Still, I am thinking of storing corn and yams...
...cold soak" also plagued the Midwest's farmers. Near Mount Vernon, Iowa, Gordon Neal discovered that the frost had penetrated an astonishing 6 ft. into the soil, freezing his water line for the first time since it was installed at the turn of the century. His silage pile was unusable, frozen rock-solid; he was forced to feed his cattle scarce hay. Following an extended drought, the freeze endangered the winter wheat crop throughout the Midwest...
...save their groves. Some 55 million boxes of oranges (out of an estimated 211-million-box crop) were lost, forecasting a likely price rise. Temperatures as low as 30° at Fort Lauderdale and 23° in Homestead killed pole beans, watermelons and tomatoes. It was the worst frost in 37 years. The weather was causing even Floridians to pack up and head south. Puerto Rico reported an influx of tourists from Miami-but high winds made even San Juan's 78° seem too cool. Wise vacationers fleeing the cold headed west rather than south: Phoenix and Tucson...
...such prominent alumni as James Schlesinger, Henry Kissinger, Archibald Cox, James D(NA) Watson, and Teddy Kennedy, along with some lively cynicism from Ralph Nader. And then what about distinguished likes of Henry James, John Dos Passos, FDR, Norman Mailer (who did not write the Monroe doctrine), Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Joseph Alsop, Frederick Lewis Allen...All right, I give up! I concede! Harvard is tradition, for God's sake...