Word: teas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average Briton would raise no flag on Vesting Day. As he woke in his frigid bedroom, shaved in icy water and ate a cold breakfast without the cheering "hot cuppa tea," he wanted his socialism translated into a fuller coal scuttle. Even his ingenious efforts to circumvent the coal shortage were backfiring. He heated his rooms with electric "fires"; result: an overstraining of the nation's electrical plants, and periodic interruption of power supply. He tried to warm his water with gas by using strange, traditional, Rube Goldberg contraptions called "geysers" (pronounced geezers). Result: a critical nationwide lowering...
...second star of the Metropolitan's show was Hiroshige, who was born 37 years after Hokusai. His work ended the golden age of Japanese prints and started a new era in Western art. His prints, frequently used in wrapping tea for export to Europe, exerted an influence on Manet, Whistler, Degas, and Van Gogh...
...Here the teachers never meet. Back home ... we have some social contacts. While the children have their free milk, the teachers have 20 minutes for a cup of tea and social intercourse. There are no bells ringing and no dictatorship rules. ... I like to be conscientious as a teacher of my own free will. ... I don't feel free in Centennial...
...member, who suggested he "wait until I have finished." Retorted Strachey: "Keep your temper." Objected Conservative Sir Gifford Fox: "Surely that is not a ministerial expression. . . . Take your hands out of your pockets and sit down." Shouted Strachey: ". . . schoolboy stuff !" The Speaker finally got a little quiet. "There is tea being provided," he announced, "in the corridor outside...
...sent to the U.S. for health and diet charts and hung them in the school hall. After studying them for a day and finding only milk and cocoa on the beverage list, the Southfield Road children came to her and said: "But please, miss, where's our tea...