Word: grose
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...Grose, Dean • allegedly amusing e-mail depicting watermelons on White House lawn is sent by to fellow Orange County citizens, among them an unamused black woman • unawareness that the alleged affinity of African Americans for watermelon is one of the basic tenets of racial stereotyping is claimed by • why the - okay, Dean, have it your way - non-racist image of watermelons on the White House lawn is supposed to be funny goes unexplained...
...busy corners, and avenues are choked with cars and taxis carrying people afraid to ride the Métro. I wish I could have felt comfortable reading your story as an after-the-fact commentary. But the security checks and sirens remind us that it is not over yet. Carolyn Grose Paris...
...overlooking the dense bush into which Caley and his men descended. Of the 62 km Caley traveled to reach the Carmarthen Hills, as a section of the range was then known, less than a third has been swallowed by farming and suburbia; most of it today lies in the Grose Wilderness - an area protected as part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area which covers more than a million hectares of steep gorges, waterfalls, swamps and sandstone escarpments that, in the late afternoon sun, glow the color of warm toffee. From this vantage point, looking west to flat-topped...
...thought, if we get across, we'll be right." But Caley was wrong; the ridge on the other side only revealed more ridges and valleys in his path. Two hundred years have not made the descent any kinder; it remains a knee-jarring scramble down to where the Grose River jostles between boulders, and, just as Caley's men did with homemade twine, the team has to lower its packs on rope where the rock face is steepest. The cool Grose waters provide only short relief before a lung-bursting ascent to the top, where Caley and his men tried...