Word: bouquet
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...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...
...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...
Elizabeth and Philip drove slowly past a line of jingling African chiefs, sped to a new maternity hospital. There a solemn little Negro boy named Prince (because he was born the same day as Elizabeth's son, Prince Charles) waited wide-eyed, bouquet in hand. The Princess approached. The little three-year-old forgot all the rehearsals and admonitions, and spellbound, extended his free hand instead of the bouquet. Gently the Princess, who is usually more nervous than her greeters, bent down, took the bouquet and thanked him. The watching Africans were delighted...
With his compartment full of roses and a huge bouquet in his hand, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky was on his way back to Moscow from Paris. While photographers' bulbs flashed and Soviet officials bowed & scraped, newsmen fired questions about the spectacular failure of every Russian proposal put to the current session of the U.N. Assembly. Said Vishinsky: "The decisions taken were for the preparation of a new war by the Anglo-American bloc." Was he going to retire? Quipped white-haired Vishinsky, 68: "Qui vivra verra [He who lives shall see]." All but one of the satellite lackeys...