Word: pours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact gentility seemed to be the watchword ofour four years. We had regular teas to which wewore black dresses, white gloves, and little blackhats. Each one of us was required to pour. Since Icame from a background where tea was dispensedeither from a tea pot or a tea kettle, I was notprepared for the samovar used at formal teas. Whenmy turn came to pour, I was horrified to discoverthat moving the lever right or left failed to stemthe tide of tea. Just as my first poured cup wasabout to rise over the top, a dean rushed over andpushed the lever...
...Massachusetts. At dawn, Lexington Common is crowded with spectators for the reenacted approach of the British. After shots are fired and the Redcoats march on to Concord, a parade gives the Americans something to do after enjoying a pancake breakfast. By 10 in the morning, students and businesspeople pour into Fenway Park for a promising game early in the season and then head downtown to cheer on the participants of a certain footrace from Hopkinton into Boston. As the sun sets after a beautiful day, the streets are filled with people, the sound of bands and the sight...
...Dominican Republic, this particular shop is only one of many. Men, women, and children re being beaten, harassed and essentially enslaved so that Americans can have cheap apparel; as consumers we must work to limit suffering by consuming responsibly and insisting that the institutions into which we pour our money act responsibly. Sweatshops are bad and we should do our best to punish those who strive to profit from the suffering of others. But rather than striving to stomp out each individual sweatshop, we wonder if we shouldn't search for the root of the problem. In all the sweat...
Only 7% of the world's smokers are American, so U.S. companies pour funds into the already huge overseas market. Chinese smokers, for instance, consumed 1.7 trillion cigarettes in 1997. Last year a third of Philip Morris' $72 billion in revenues came from selling cigarettes abroad--712 billion of them. "The West got the Russians out and the Marlboro Man in," sighs Witold Zatonski, a leader in Poland's anti-smoking crusade. In Warsaw's streets, signs for L&M tout the "American way." Joe Camel, banned in Boston, boogies in Buenos Aires; the Marlboro Man rides on in Taiwan...
...water. Dump it into the seven-cup flask. Then refill the three-cup flask and dump it into the seven-cup flask. There now is one cup of water in the three-cup flask. Next, dump the water out of the seven-cup flask and fill it with water. Pour it into the three-cup flask up to the rim. There now is five cups of water left in the seven-cup flask...