Word: cereus
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During a routine inspection of their manufacturing process, Merck officials found that some equipment was contaminated with a bacteria called Bacillus cereus...
...hardly looked as if she had spent 2½ annoying hours in a plane stacked up over Kennedy Airport, only to emerge into the mid-90° steam bath that was Manhattan last week. As cool and beautiful as a nightblooming cereus, French Film Star Catherine Deneuve, 24, was over from Paris for three weeks of filming on The April Fools, a romantic comedy about two sufferers of mal de mariage. And pity the folks dying to show her the town. What with costumers, hairdressers, script girls and the rest, it was almost a week before Socialites Heidi Vanderbilt...
...pulpit ("the largest flower in the world") once in twelve to 20 years, then dies from the enormity of the act. Such exoticism is not for all: said one lady from Rumson. N.J.: "You wouldn't catch me with one of those things. Our night-blooming cereus is good enough...
Thornton, whose botany was not so sharp as his sense of the picturesque, insisted that his artists give each flower a romantically appropriate setting: Dutch meadows for the tulips, mountain heights for the kalmia, a forbidding coast for the American cowslip, a gothic midnight for the night-blowing cereus. If the results have more period charm than truth-to-nature, it is partly because flowers are among the most difficult challenges a painter can pick. Flowers are delicate as eyelids, complex as blood vessels, vital as fire, and their colors make paint look muddy by comparison. Yet artists-an ambitious...
Ilka Chase's first novel is the liveliest agitation of stamens and pistil since the last flowering of the night-blooming cereus. Like the heady perfumes of its heroine (a chrome-plated Manhattan cosmetician), In Bed We Cry derives its strength from a dash of civet. The plot is a triangle whose base is always broad, whose chief points are streamlined by agelessness...