Word: bouquet
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...Seoul, Mayor Kim Tai Sun presented Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet with a scroll, an eight-inch silver key, a bouquet of roses and pronounced him honorary mayor of the city on its 558th anniversary as capital of Korea. A few days later, Mayor Sun was out of office. The R.O.K. government inspection committee dismissed him for embezzling several hundred million won of government funds...
...explosion occurred in a little house with a corrugated aluminum roof in Caracas' eastern suburbs. Two revolutionaries were assembling a bomb from dynamite and steel pipe when the weapon, set off unintentionally, killed both. At Columbus Day ceremonies next day, someone tossed a bomb, hidden in a bouquet, at members of the junta: Lieut. Colonels Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and their civilian satellite, President Germán Suárez Flamerich. Military policemen quickly scooped up the bomb, but it was a dud anyway. Twenty-four hours later, Llovera...
...longer has very much else. Even in 1932, it employed old-fashioned European operetta largely as a model, if sometimes as a butt; its best chance in revival was to capture the nostalgic charm of an unabashed period piece. But as revived, the show as badly lacks bouquet as the production lacks style...
...large bouquet to the writer responsible for "Manners & Morals" [TIME, Sept. 24], and a faint slap on the wrist to TIME for lending importance to the matrimonial (there is a better word) tag matches that distinguish a certain layer of Hollywood society. Tone, Payton and Neal, like "That Gardner Girl," might best be left to their petty problems...
When Harriman emplaned a few days later, the Foreign Minister was at hand to say goodbye. The Premier sent a huge bouquet of pink gladioli for Mrs. Harriman. Among the many gifts: an Isfahan rug (for Truman) and an antique rifle (for Harriman) from the Shah...