Word: bouquet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roofed with thousands and thousands of white birds overhead. You would be silent, and all you could hear was the wings rustling. One day we sat in our boats through such a sight, with the sun setting, then the moon, as the birds headed into their rookeries, like a bouquet of white flowers, before nightfall...
...time since 1978. It was quickly closed, however, when sniper fire from members of a small militia group, Partisans of the Revolution, caused a halt in traffic. But an hour later the leader of the group, Moustafa Turk, went to Prime Minister Wazzan's office to deliver a bouquet of flowers and an apology. There had been, he said, a "misunderstanding" by some...
...since 1957 he has conferred distinction on the New York Times as its food editor. It has been said that this private house of his here in East Hampton, near the eastern tip of Long Island, is one of the best restaurants in the U.S. Claiborne repeats this bouquet in his new memoir-with-recipes, A Feast Made for Laughter (Doubleday; $17.95). But so light and joyous is his touch when he writes about food, and so much of the praise redirected toward his talented colleague, French Chef Pierre Franey, that his self-beguilement seems no more than just...
...developed a national following for his Anchor Steam Beer even though only 25,000 bbl. of the brew were produced last year. The beer, now available in 19 states, including Massachusetts and Georgia, is much praised by savants for its distinctively European taste, which imparts a somewhat heavier bouquet than is common among American brands...
Sexual liaisons and betrayals have turned the cast into a nest of hissing adders by Act II. They have to hiss; the setting is backstage during an actual performance of Nothing On at Weston-super-Mare. Eddington hands out three gifts: a bouquet of flowers, a bottle of whisky and an ax. These pass from hand to hand as swiftly as batons in a relay race. The action is a testimonial to Director Michael Blakemore's tornado pace and stopwatch timing...