Word: frostings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost 210 years, the U.S. has muddled along without an official poet laureate. This lack did not noticeably hinder the work of such natives as Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Frost and Robert Lowell. But it bothered Hawaiian Senator Spark Matsunaga, an avid reader and sometimes writer of poems, including one called Ode to a Traffic Light ("Impartial traffic cop/ That blushingly speeding cars do stop...
Outraged by what they perceived to be a history of insubordination, Alvin Frost's bosses in the District of Columbia municipal government tossed the Harvard-trained cash-management analyst out of his office and changed the locks last week. But Frost was prepared: he had changed the seven-letter computer password to the district's cash-management system, electronically locking financial officials out of key data. All he would say about the new password was that it concerned the Declaration of Independence...
...Frost, 38, touched off a whistle-blowing donnybrook about a year ago by advising supervisors not to place $100 million in district funds with a shaky New Jersey securities firm. When the company collapsed, Frost embarrassed Mayor Marion Barry's administration with an "I told you so" city council appearance. Earlier this month someone gained access to Frost's computer data, extracted a letter he had written to Barry charging the city's top financial managers with "incompetence, mismanagement . . . intimidation and indifference," and leaked it to local newspapers. After Frost's electronic lockout, his superiors announced they had bypassed...
SATURDAY night. Midnight. Packs of jeering, snow-laden combatants rushed past, pouncing on their targets, smothering any attempted defense, and thoroughly dousing their victims. My clothes were caked in snow, and my head covered in frost after emerging victorious from the flurry of winter warfare...
...amid fellow frolicking freshmen, I heard an alarming piece of conversation. "Are you taking Chem 20?" queried one snowball thrower of his companion. When I realized that the classwide fun and games in the Yard would soon give way to individual quests for second semester success, the veil of frost glazing my vision quickly cleared...