Word: chrysanthemum
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...water cannot be used, even for ice or brushing teeth, but most hotels supply unlimited quantities of boiled water, hot and cold. With food, the best choices are bottled mineral waters and the excellent, clean-tasting Chinese beer, both preferable to the flowery local wines. And jasmine or chrysanthemum teas are more pleasant than the ordinary rough green and black teas...
Trying to pick a national flower has been a hardy perennial in Washington politics. More than 70 different bills have been introduced over the years, promoting a veritable bouquet of blossoms, including the carnation, corn tassel, chrysanthemum and even clover. The late Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois long campaigned for the humble marigold, praising its virtues in one flowery speech after another. His son-in-law, former Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, held out for the marigold in Dirksen's honor. But Baker retired from Congress in 1984, and the rose finally won out as the House approved...
...minute Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip stepped out of their British Airways TriStar at New Delhi's Palam airport, they were greeted by marching bands, a 21-gun salute and officers arrayed in spotless finery. As a Mercedes six-door limousine ferried the royal visitors through the chrysanthemum-lined streets, welcoming banners fluttered before them and wizened shopkeepers craned their necks to wave at perhaps the world's richest woman. On the last leg of an 18-day, three-nation swing through Africa and Asia, the Queen made it clear that royalty can still command loyalty...
...singles have brought in more than $125 million, boosting her own income from records to half a million dollars a year. Pressing on while her pressings are hot, she has starred in two movies, The Legend of Plumeria, about a student in love, and The Tomb of the Wild Chrysanthemum, about a farm girl in love. If anyone wants to make Grease Japanese, the only casting problem would be John Travolta's role. -By E. Graydon Carter
...regional potions like the South's horehound and pine-needle tea, and ethnic preparations featuring ingredients like honey, garlic and cayenne. Faith is widespread in the anticold potency of herbs like eucalyptus, mullein leaves, bloodroot and red clover. California Herb Specialist Michael Tierra commends a concoction of honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and licorice...