Word: florals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...during the Ming dynasty, saw lanes repaved, streetlights installed, sewage lines overhauled, roofs repaired, doors painted, windows replaced and rooms that had been haphazardly added onto old homes demolished and rebuilt in a traditional style. Piles of construction debris filled the streets; antique wooden eaves with hand-painted floral patterns were left out as scrap...
...Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and Clement C. Moore's The Night Before Christmas, establishing her whimsical style for a generation of young readers. Her animals appear perky and knowing, the children scrappy and game. She showed a botanist's eye for detail in the elaborate floral borders framing her poems and stories...
...with extra cell-phone batteries to keep up with the pace of modern campaign communications. In a suite of offices where black is de rigueur for women as well as men, Ickes is a somewhat diverting figure who favors a colorful Carnaby Street fashion sense--purple dress shirts and floral ties are his trademarks--that is as brash and unapologetic...
...restraint. There's a scene midway through Twilight in which, for the first time, Edward leans in close and sniffs the aroma of Bella's exposed neck. "Just because I'm resisting the wine doesn't mean I can't appreciate the bouquet," he says. "You have a very floral smell, like lavender ... or freesia." He barely touches her, but there's more sex in that one paragraph than in all the snogging in Harry Potter...
...Pale Ale its favorite American pale ale). Oskar's sells a beer-flavored lip balm and some very intense beers. That means they're high alcohol (up to 10.5%, compared with 5% for a Coors) and have wads of hops--the green, pinecone-looking plant that gives beer its floral aroma and bitterness. In fact, bitterness is measurable (in International Bittering Units, or IBUS), and brewers are almost all men, so they tend to get competitive about how many IBUS they can get into a beer, no matter how insanely expensive and difficult it has become to get hops because...