Word: frosting
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...tautly composed image. Mostly forgotten is her expansion of the role of First Lady as foreign emissary, on her own. She loved traveling and blossomed visibly in direct ratio to the distance between her mission and the inhibitions imposed on her at home. In 1970 she warmed the frost between the U.S. and Peru when she traveled to towns destroyed by earthquakes, delivering aid and personal comfort to survivors. In West Africa in 1972 she was cheered by huge throngs, exotic tribal kings and bare-breasted dancers. At home, in the protest years, she met with demonstrators in Los Angeles...
...particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of the weather. Barbara Humberger of Austin began going native in 1989 after an unusual cold spell killed many of the nonnative shrubs that surrounded her lakeside home. Her property shimmers with blackfoot daisies that bloom from early spring until the first fall frost. UCLA neurologist Andrew Charles wanted an attractive but drought-resistant cover for the steep hillside behind his house. His solution was to plant deep-rooted California lilacs punctuated by the orchid-like blossoms of sticky monkey flowers...
...Westminster School's capitulation sends a discouraging message to other religious schools. It is up to the secular intellectual community to expand its definition of "tolerance" and "inclusiveness" to include toleration for the rights and needs of those who believe, in the words of Robert Frost, that good fences make good neighbors...
...paternal grandmother, who was the illegitimate daughter of a white plantation owner and his slave mistress. When Haley died last February, he was in the process of dictating the story to screenwriter David Stevens. Stevens has now fashioned it into a six-hour drama that John Erman (An Early Frost) has directed and CBS, with much fanfare, will present next week...
fewer paths for the eye and fingers of frost...