Word: orchided
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Minus the monocle and orchid boutonniere he used to affect even while hunting, semi-retired Edwardian-style Playboy Nubar Gulbenkian,* fiftyish, son of the greatest wheeler-dealer of them all, the late billionaire Five-Percenter Calouste Gulbenkian, showed up in Britain, his old playground (he now lives in Portugal), sipped a spot of liquid warmth before riding off to a hunt in Buckinghamshire...
...Britain's elite Pytchley Hunt, a horsy chap once superciliously told Gulbenkian that he had never before seen an orchid worn in the field. Gulbenkian's amiable squelch: "My dear sir, I expect this is the first time you have seen an Armenian out with the Pytchley!" *Bugle-voiced Comedienne Hutton "retired" forever a year ago, has since launched two comebacks...
...Setting a killing pace for the official sedans that followed, he swerved along the northward-twisting highway toward the Caribbean. At the coast he turned west again over the low plain to Barquisimeto, speeding through the clear dusk that silhouetted wide-spreading samán trees blackly against an orchid...
...more than 1,350,000 plant specimens from all over the world. It includes the New England Botany Club collection of all New England Botany Club collection of all New England plants. Most of the non-horticultural specimens brought in from the Arnold Arboretum are from Southeastern Asia. The Orchid collection of Oakes Ames, and fossil plant collection of the Botannical Museum are also now housed in the Herbarium...
...alas for Adam's vegetable idyl! The villain, Mr. Universe (Steve Reeves), idly nibbles at a white orchid and pouts: "You've been avoiding me, Athena, and I'm full of acid and electricity." One day he wraps his triceps around Adam's neck, but Adam remembers his Commando tactics, flattens the meatless wonder and gets the girl. As one of her sisters remarks: "It's wonderful what you can do without muscles...