Word: hilltop
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...requires considerable fortitude; to rise early and weed builds discipline; to construct a garden in one's mind in the dead of winter fosters purity of thought. "Sometimes what you do is for others," muses Designer Oscar de la Renta, who has transformed a Connecticut horse farm into a hilltop garden of crab-apple trees and white roses, with rows of fruit trees and swaths of delphiniums. "You may plant something you will never see yourself." He marvels at a palm tree he discovered in Florida, which erupts into blossom only once in its lifetime. "A garden gives...
...court's pronouncement involved the garbage of Billy Greenwood of Laguna Beach, Calif. In 1984, after learning from an informant that Greenwood might be dealing drugs and after observing a parade of cars making brief nocturnal stops at his posh hilltop home, Police Investigator Jenny Jones asked the local refuse collector to turn over the brown plastic trash bags in front of the house. Clawing through the contents with rubber gloves, officers uncovered a rich nest of drug-related paraphernalia: razor blades, straws containing cocaine residue, and phone bills listing calls to people with drug records. Based on this evidence...
...Liberation Organization flag, thousands of Israeli Arabs staged nonviolent Land Day demonstrations in sympathy with the Palestinians under occupation. The restrictions were lifted on Good Friday, but Israeli leaders did not withdraw their threats to quell the rioters. Declared Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We say to them, from this hilltop and from the perspective of thousands of years of history, that in our eyes they are like grasshoppers...
...Lady Bird Johnson started writing a book. At 66, she found romance -- with a man she had known when she was 20. Now 67, she has devised her cardinal rules for aging: entertain a lot, never pass up an invitation, and by all means fall in love. On a hilltop outside her home in Salado, Texas, she entertains friends in the Jacuzzi she calls her "golden pond." Every month she gathers with fellow members of the Bay at the Moon Society, a group of large-lunged Texans who meet at a different ranch to sing and holler at the midnight...
...riot gear stood guard as tourists filed into the Church of the Nativity, built in the 6th century on the spot where Christ is believed to have been born. Troops with assault rifles and tear-gas launchers patrolled the market area, while soldiers ringed the perimeter of the picturesque hilltop village. On Christmas Eve, the heavy military presence combined with a cold rain to keep Bethlehem unusually quiet. Those pilgrims who did venture into the town were frisked before boarding their buses...