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Word: bouquet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transplanted Wellesley production takes in new soil, the Loeb will be offering a bouquet tomorrow...

Author: By Fird Gardner, | Title: Roses | 3/10/1962 | See Source »

Last month, when the case was finally heard, Francesco met the charges with a bouquet of flowers for Angela, which she icily rejected. The judges threw out his lawyer's plea of insanity, instead threw the book at Francesco: two years and three months for the kiss, seven months for unceasing molestation, and three months of a previously unserved sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: When the Kissing Had to Stop | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

RING OF BRIGHT WATER, by Gavin Maxwell. A lyric bouquet in memory of the best pal the author ever had-a lovable, rubbery otter named Mij, who could clown like a dog, slink like a cat, and swim better than anything else that ever got wet. Maxwell respects his old friend's dignity, and never allows his recollections to become cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE YEAR'S BEST | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

With an amazing capacity to seek out scoundrels and scold them, the muckrakers exhumed disgrace everywhere. They goaded Congress into adopting a bristling bouquet of reform legislation, gave birth to the Progressive movement, and stirred the U.S. into new social consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Time for Anger | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...word denotes monkey to children. Soon children were asked to recognize the "two little eyes" in moon-with logical results. Since letters meant nothing, moon turned into boon, loon or soon. Now, say critics. U.S. children are mired in a whole lexicon of reading errors-bolt for blot, bouquet for banquet, cottage for college, and scores of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Ivan Reads | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

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