Word: teas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, through a dicker with China National Tea Corp., Hunt & Co. controlled all the tea in China...
...seal, a few deft strokes of the knife and the pelt is sculped off. All day long the killing goes on; the ice runs red with blood. At night the crewmen trudge back to cramped quarters aboard ship for a meal of seals' flippers, a mug of black tea. Then a night's sleep, fully clothed, a breakfast of "fish and brewis" (boiled hardtack), and off on the ice again. In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals...
...evenings, over a cup of jasmine tea or a Bourbon oldfashioned, the Special Envoy would mull over the day's progress. In slippers and dressing gown, he would sit at his desk in the study bedroom, where two photographs of. Mrs. Marshall looked at him reassuringly, and pen terse reports to Washington...
They got to saying "rather" and "actually" and succumbed to the English habit of afternoon tea-though without altering their G.I. dinner time, so that 5:30 dinner followed 4 o'clock tea with indecent and indigestible haste. They went punting on the Cam, played rugger with Cantabrigians (and lost), American football (and won), debated in the Cambridge Union Society and acted in the Amateur Dramatic Club...
...wives' tales hold that sulphur & molasses, forced down squalling young throats in early spring, provides a needed thickening of the blood, thinned down by winter. Farmers' almanacs advise rural readers to drink sassafras tea and rhubarb brews to cleanse the body of winter's ills...