Word: peppermint
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CABERNET "It's very elegant; strong on blackberries; a little plummy; hints of peppermint; fruity, intense." --Michel Couvreux, chief sommelier, Le Bernardin...
...that span, Peanuts has entered our nation's collective conscience. Mention Charlie Brown and everyone in the room knows his round head with scarcely a hair on it. Connect the words "football" and "funny" and you'll probably picture Peppermint Patty pulling the ball away from Charlie Brown yet again. And you can't imagine the concept of a security blanket without recalling images of Linus...
AILING. CHARLES SCHULZ, 77, Peanuts cartoonist and creator of Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty and Snoopy; with colon cancer; in a hospital in Santa Rosa, Calif. Doctors discovered the cancer after operating last week to repair a blocked abdominal artery...
...When she gets a headache, Tennant turns to essential oils; to stay awake, Tennant makes herself a cup of peppermint...
...scary and consistently funny, adept at both broad slapstick and allusive puns and wordplay. She appeals to the peanut gallery with such items as Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, a wizard candy that means what it says on its package; it offers every flavor, ranging from chocolate and peppermint to liver and tripe and earwax. But Rowling also names the Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch, evidently hoping that a few adult readers will remember that Argus, in Greek mythology, was a watchman with eyes all over his body. And even if no one else picks up the reference...