Word: cake
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Toward this end, Clark is eating a varied diet and gradually increasing his activity. His meals include bacon and eggs, potatoes and gravy, vegetables and lemon pie, quite a change since January, when he was forbidden to taste the heart-shaped chocolate cake that was baked for his 62nd birthday. Clark, who had been a 6-handicap golfer, avidly follows sports on TV and enjoys reading the letters that have arrived by the thousands. He was particularly pleased when a Seattle hospital named a coronary wing after him. "Just think," he said dryly, "I didn't have...
Carved of gray-brown volcanic stone, Borobudur consists of a large platform, roughly 400 ft. on each side, surmounted by a wedding cake of five progressively smaller square terraces. These are topped by three circular layers. Crowning the entire structure is a bell-shaped stupa. Dozens of statues of Buddha line the balustrades on each level. Ancient Javanese architects, under Hindu influence, designed Borobudur as a model of the Mahayana Buddhist cosmos; the various levels represent the ascending stages of enlightenment that must be passed before nirvana, or spiritual freedom, is reached...
...from architecture to soil mechanics, concluded that halfway measures would no longer do; a major rebuilding had to be undertaken. To arrest the "stone cancer," as experts call it, the temple's entire middle section was removed, a job comparable to taking out the center of a layer cake without causing a collapse. With the help of a computer contributed by IBM, each of the 1,300,232 stones was catalogued, then cleaned and chemically treated before being returned to its place. Thousands of stones that had tumbled down over the years had to be fitted, like parts...
...President Reagan reeled off figures to demonstrate that his defense spending was comparatively not so large, reporters at the televised press conference began to titter. The President grew flustered, then spotted the cause. Nancy Reagan, 61, was in the wings with a cake for her husband's 72nd birthday. The assembled journalists launched into the appropriate chorus, with one quavering soloist adding, "How old are you?" Reagan sang back that it was "two days early." And while a few correspondents groused that the conference had been manipulated, the President happily cut slices out of something besides the budget...
...context, where the baby in question is being cooked up on consignment, there is cause for real worry. With all the potential joys of scientifically created parenthood, the last thing one wishes to encourage is the impersonal approach. What is being cooked up in each instance is not a cake or a car or a mail-order watch. It is a person, small-headed or not, and any situation that suggests otherwise is not just dismaying but dangerous...