Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largest cash crop; in the past four years of heavy demand and rising labor costs, prices for premium Cabernet Sauvignon grapes have jumped from $305 a ton to about $ 1,000. They will rise still higher as a result of a tight supply. Because of a spring frost and August heat-wave damage, the 1972 California grape harvest, which was completed last month, was the smallest in 30 years. Those grapes are now fermenting, and when 1972 wines reach the market next year, some may carry price tags that are as much as 20% higher. In the Napa Valley...
...little shocked, quite delighted and very happy," was the way Diahann Carroll described her feelings on becoming engaged to longtime (two years) Boy Friend David Frost, the television talk-show star. "He proposed in Los Angeles ten days ago," she added, "and he managed to do it without making it sound like an interview." The beaming Frost refused to kiss his bride-to-be in front of the press, saying, "We'll do that in privacy." He promised the wedding will take place in London at Easter...
...standings, have a potent, but inconsistent, offensive attack Ferdinand Treushacher, one of the junior college All-Americans Brown persuaded to come to smoggy Providence, leads the team in scoring but is well down in the list of Ivy scoring leaders with five points John Drew. Dick McEvoy, and Bill Frost complete the line...
...maintain the sublime/ In the old sense." After the rhetoric and moral posturing of the Victorians, he declared early for a different approach -harder, saner, nearer the bone, Pound said, "austere, direct, free from emotional slither." Then as gadfly, teacher, prosodist and selfless promoter of gifted contemporaries (Eliot, Yeats, Frost), he encouraged the spare, sensuous verse, the ironic double vision that has helped modern poets consider and refine the challenges and confusions of a new and terrifying century...
...curious lack of compassion, evident in much of his poetry. It was Eliot who best described Pound's weakness, when he wrote, "Pound's hells are for other people." Eliot became a British citizen. Mad Ireland hurt Yeats into poetry. William Carlos Williams had his doctoring. Frost never left New England. In the poetry of the age, Ezra Pound was the lost leader-and the man who never found a home...