Word: bouquet
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...Macy's department store in New York City. Bags full of mail and telegrams arrived at Mougins, a tiny town above the bay at Cannes on the French Riviera, where Picasso lives. Grateful citizens of Vallauris, the town Picasso resurrected by reviving its pottery industry, sent a huge bouquet of red roses with a white dove in a cage, and their children sent batches of their best crayon drawings. His wife Jacqueline, 41, gave him a pair of 16th century lead dogs for the garden...
...first time, it seemed, since the flood, there were real tears in the old battler's eyes, as a schoolgirl presented a bouquet of 80 roses on the parade route outside Jerusalem. Then his car inched slowly forward, as a crowd of some 50,000 gave a rousing birthday cheer to Israel's ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion. "I am only 20," B-G said wistfully. "Four times 20." Though most Israelis were feeling sentimental about their nation's grand old man, Premier Levi Eshkol was not. Having feuded with Ben-Gurion almost since...
...trying the fifth layer. The knife finally cut through, and Pat submitted to the bridegroom's traditional cake-eating indignity. Before the couple made their farewells and departed on an unknown honeymoon about 6:45 p.m., Luci made a last speech from the south balcony, then tossed her bouquet. It wound up, with a little sisterly collusion, in the possession of Lynda Bird, whose escort at the wedding was Actor George Hamilton. "Thank you all," said Luci, "for this beautiful, wonderful day, the most magnificent day of our lives...
...will be a three-ring affair in every sense. Pat will wear one ring, but Luci will get two diamond-studded bands, one to go on each side of her engagement ring. Instead of one bridal bouquet there will be two, one for Luci to throw and one for her to lay-at her request-at the foot of a statue of St. Agatha, a patron saint of nurses. Lady Bird Johnson, who was married on the day she gave her first unequivocal yes, by a pastor she had never met, with a $2.50 ring hastily bought at Sears, Roebuck...
...bride, the President's costs for the reception will be held down by the fact that it is being staged at the White House. Most of the flowers will be provided by the White House greenhouse keepers, who have grown lilies of the valley for the bridal bouquet. The orchestra will be the scarlet-coated Marine Band. The multilayered wedding cake is being prepared by the White House pastry chef, who worked for two months preparing mock-up designs for Luci...