Word: tearooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front bench in Commons during the 3:30 a.m. announcement of the Labor government's economic moves. Later, in the members' lounge, Brown complained to Tories and Laborites alike: "I'm never consulted about anything." Then he gathered about 50 Labor M.P.s in the Commons' tearoom. "I'm one of you now," he said. "We are going to plunge this party back to the grass roots and see a reflowering of our party...
...illegitimate son of a Glasgow tearoom waitress, Ian Brady had a gift for making even his tastes in the varieties of evil seem a cliché. As a boy, he buried a cat alive, collected Nazi souvenirs, stole shillings from gas meters around Manchester. After early crushes on such villains as Josef Kramer, commandant of the Belsen concentration camp, and Harry Lime of The Third Man, Ian finally met his true soul mate in the Marquis de Sade-a literary encounter that Williams recklessly compares to Keats's stumbling upon Chapman's Homer...
Researcher Sue Raffety learned to cook with her mother, who ran a tearoom in Blackwell, Okla. For the cover, Sue spent 19 days interviewing food experts in Manhattan, sampling all the while. One day she was forced to eat three chefs-delight lunches within five hours. Editor Cranston Jones-ate and edited-but stayed out of the kitchen. He was content in the knowledge that his wife has had lessons at Paris' Cordon Bleu...
...Moderate Tearoom. By sheer weight of numbers as well as dollars, the cavalrymen were hurting An Khe and being hurt by the uncontrolled squalor and rapacity of the riffraff. So just before things boiled over in Tet New Year roistering last January, Air Cav General Harry W. O. Kinnard stepped in and declared all of An Khe off limits to his men. Prices soon dropped back toward normal, the disease rates dipped. But the men of the Air Cav, out fighting in the jungles for weeks at a time in some of the bitterest, bloodiest battling...
...boum-boum parlors" built of concrete blocks and surrounded by coils of concertina barbed wire. Each parlor consists of a bar with eight cubicles opening off the back. Eventually there will be 40 parlors, bearing such rubrics as Paradise, Caravelle, Golden Hind, Hill Billy, Washington and the Moderate Tearoom...