Word: teas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rivera directed them to a friend's house, roused a woman there, and emerged a half hour later to advise Eliot, who by that time had the chills, "Your tea is ready." Eliot drank the tea, which tasted like nothing he had ever encountered before, and insisted on knowing what was in it. The woman said it would be better if he didn't, and gave him a second cup. Finally, she said: "It's an Indian recipe - my grandmother's. It's made of powdered cockerel's whiskers." "That may be," says Eliot...
Last week, 60-year-old Ethel Underwood was giving a tea when two men forced their way into the Seoul house, one at the front door and one at the back. Outwardly unshaken by the invasion, Mrs. Underwood left her guests and confronted one of the men in the foyer. As she was trying to persuade him to leave the house, his accomplice raised a sawed-off U.S. Army carbine and fired. Mrs. Underwood's guests found her lying in the foyer, a bullet through her abdomen. "I want to see my husband," she said...
...British Royal Dragoons, said that sticking with Great Britain would have given Louisiana to the U.S. for nothing, averted the Civil War, the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and remarked that if there had been no revolution "you would be able to make a decent cup of tea...
With a handful of chicken sandwiches, a Thermos jug of hot tea and some water beside him, Odom took off and headed east. Nine hundred miles away, he waved goodbye to a B-17 which had gone with him for company. Six hours later he waved hello to another which came out to escort him over San Francisco. Over Chicago, he failed to notice that a gas tank had gone dry, lost several thousand feet before he could get his stalled engine started from another tank. Over Pennsylvania, he plugged in an electric razor and shaved. Then he landed...
Where is the stock market going? All ready to analyze the tea leaves and gaze into the crystal ball, 500 members of the National Federation of Financial Analysts Societies gathered in Manhattan last week to see what they could see. The analysts, who advise brokers on what to tell their customers, found the market's future full of ifs, ands & buts...