Word: bouquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor of Alhambra (pop. 52,753), Calif, presented a big bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Nobuko Coronel, Filipino-Japanese war bride of a hometown veteran, to help convince her that she was welcome in the U.S. The greeting ceremony was arranged (and more than 70 citizens were moved to write letters of welcome) after a local citizen had sent her a note condemning her marriage to Corporal Robert A. Coronel and warning her that she was not wanted in Alhambra...
...story bylined by eight-year-old Vera Kondakova, who was chosen to present Joseph Stalin with a May Day bouquet, the Communist paper Young World gave East German readers the Moscow version of juvenile heaven. Wrote Vera (or ghostwriter): "I am the happiest, the very happiest child on earth. Comrade Stalin stood right next to me. He looked at me in such a friendly way and smiled...
...Manhattan, after the traditional motor drive to City Hall where he received the city's Medal of Honor, Dr. Leopold Figl, Chancellor of Austria, was luncheon guest of honor at the Overseas Press Club. There he accepted a bouquet and a buss from nine-year-old Emmi Mattesich, all dressed up in her best Austrian costume. In a serious mood, Figl told reporters: "We in central Europe today are the easternmost outpost of the free world and we are determined to defend this bastion. To achieve this we must rely upon the moral and material help of the free...
...Scotch industry is Glenlivet, a potent, peat-smoky liquor which many U.S. Scotch fanciers have never heard of. Glenlivet is little known because 98½% of its 220,000-gal. annual output is siphoned off by big brand-name Scotch distillers, who use it to provide tang, bouquet and flavor to their own blends. Unlike other Scotch distillers, Glenlivet's owner, 56-year-old Captain William Henry Smith Grant, a kilted, decorated veteran of two wars,† never made a blend in his life, and neither did his distilling forebears-father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Their only product...
...second test is for bouquet. Each member warms his glass by rolling it around in the palm of his hands, thus volatizing the wine more quickly. Then the tester dips his nose into the glass to the level of the wine and breathes in deeply. He meditates for a moment and attempts to describe the bouquet. He may have to repeat the process a number of times before he can come out with a suitable adjective, such as flowery, chalky, flinty, sour, or maybe just plain grape. Although preferring imaginative words, the members try to avoid such phrases...