Word: pined
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...years in power defending his claim. One remarkable hanging scroll, painted in the second year of Yongzheng's reign by the Jesuit priest Giuseppe Castiglione - who had been brought to court by Kangxi and lasted well into Qianlong's time - can be read as a political piece. Pine, Hawk and Glossy Ganoderma was commissioned to mark the Emperor's birthday and is replete with imagery. The pine tree stands for wisdom and long life, and the ganoderma, also known as lingzhi, is a fungus associated with immortality. But the majestic, rare white hawk - it dominates the painting - is the most...
Tanning moisturizers. Mushroom-based antiaging supplements. The earthy scent of pine needles mixed with eucalyptus. A bumper crop of beauty products hitting the market this month features nature-inspired remedies, fragrances and even design (think butterflies). Some make great holiday gifts, while others may go so far as to inspire a whole new lifestyle--naturally, of course...
...22nd Annual Chatsworth Cranberry Festival cranfest.org in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey takes place at the peak of the harvest period, on Oct. 15 and 16. The New Jersey cranberry harvest is the third largest in the country, and this festival offers tours of the cranberry bogs, music, antiques and crafts exhibitions, and a feast of cranberry-infused foods, including cranberry cakes and pies, cranberry pepper spread, cranberry ketchup and cranberry wine...
Carver came with immediate problems: Jacobs had to sell more boats in a soft economy. Among Carver's assets was Ranger Boats, which had been founded by Forrest L. Wood, a pine-tree- tall Arkansan in a Stetson who is pretty much the Paul Bunyan of bass fishing. Ranger, along with other fishing-industry firms, had for years sponsored fishing tournaments, but the payouts had been small because the companies couldn't afford big prizes...
...billion in revenue in just 10 years, but consumers were growing tired of folksy fare like Juniper Breeze shampoo gift baskets and were starting to find palatable alternatives in drugstores and discount chains, which had begun an upscale lurch of their own. Fiske came in, began renovating stores from pine-grove country to white-walled mod (a few hundred stores left to go) and started introducing more-expensive products that didn't carry the Bath & Body Works logo. Same-store sales rebounded, and last year the chain neared $2.2 billion in revenue, a 12% increase over the year before...