Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since it was beginning to look like the worst rout in these parts since the winter of 1777, no one so much as sneezed when Quaker placekicker John Dwyer booted the extra point wide left on the second touchdown. In fact, though, Dwyer's careless miscue was to make the difference in determining Penn's second-half strategy to push all-out for a touchdown--a strategy that failed three times...
...prices that farmers received averaged 23% higher in September than a year earlier, while the prices they paid for tools, fertilizer and consumer goods?including food?rose only 10%. Most crops have been bountiful enough this year to cause even retail food prices to level off after a frightening winter-spring rise. The Department of Agriculture predicts record 1978 crops of corn, soybeans, hay and fall potatoes. Corn is so abundant that Midwestern farmers are storing it on streets, playgrounds and tennis courts...
...make money in cattle this year." Reason: a combination of high prices for meat and relatively low costs for corn and other feeds that has corn growers grumbling. Vegetable growers in central Florida are selling big crops of lettuce at prices that have been pushed abnormally high by the winter-spring rains that made California lettuce scarce and unappetizing...
...rent additional land and invest in machinery can improve a farm's productivity and profits?or it can ruin a farmer who expands too fast while crop prices are falling, as many growers did in 1976-77. Indeed, the angry protests last fall and winter came largely from younger, undercapitalized farmers who borrowed and bought too much too soon and were badly squeezed by inflation...
...series' success will register later on millions of bathroom scales. Earlier indexes are available. The first episode drew a bigger audience than the debut of I, Claudius, a PBS hit last winter. Producer Hawkes-worth, who knew Rosa Lewis, says he is "happy that Americans enjoy her story, because she adored Americans. Reckoned they were all millionaires." She was wrong, but her eye, as always, rested squarely on the main chance. Rosa would have done very well in the U.S., and, with her hotel booked through next January, so should Louisa Leyton. ? Paul Gray