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