Word: fruitness
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...wooden casks before they can be sold, tying up cash in inventory, but vodka is practically an instant money machine. The chemistry is simple: ferment grain or potatoes or even grapes to make alcohol, then concentrate it by distillation. Filter the resulting colorless, odorless spirit, possibly give it a fruit flavor, push out the publicity boat with a sexy name and designer bottles, and--voilà!--you have a premium vodka that can sell in the U.S. for upwards of $30 a bottle...
...McCain come November. Though both Democrats have shown the ability to raise bigmoney online, McCain has been struggling to catch Internet fever. While his rivals rake in bundles of cash in small-dollar checks, McCain makes the rounds of hotel ballrooms, charming wealthy donors with traditional chicken dinners and fruit-platter mixers. In March he attended 26 fund raisers in 24 cities, raising about $15 million, with roughly one-third of it coming from the Web. Obama attended just six events in the same period, yet his campaign raised three times as much, 2 mostly online...
...food in economy class. But flight attendants don't dole it out from a cart like gruel in the orphanage; a touchscreen at each seat lets passengers pick what they want and pay by credit card. A few minutes after I swiped my card, an attendant brought my fruit-and-cheese box and a glass of cabernet to my seat. The food was fine, but what I remember more was the simple pleasure of getting what I wanted when I wanted it, freed from the Sisyphean tyranny of the cart...
...healthy, moistened with the previous Thursday’s rains. The leaves of the tall oaks brushed against one another caressingly, and when the wind came in short breezes the leaves gasped like the ocean. Out in the small orchard, the plum trees sagged, their branches laden with ripe fruit. Frederick thought it was the loveliest pastoral tableau that he had ever seen.Slowly, inevitably, his attention was drawn back to the terrace, back to Felicity, back to the table laden with porcelain which sat between them. There was nothing more to say of the garden, though they would probably return...
...twin sister got into a small altercation with her reflection. We were at a student art show in a hair salon. Paintings of fruit baskets and photographs of Manhattan street corners hung next to very large mirrors. The place was packed. Anabel had stumbled upon a vanity in the middle of the room, and, well, confused...