Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Release. Just before turning the prisoners over to the French, the Communists gave them haircuts, bars of soap and a meal of pork and chicken. When the French navy put in at Haithuon to take the prisoners away, Viet Minh nurses were conspicuously serving them tea. But the French rescuers still had to carry most of the prisoners aboard the LSM in stretchers, and the prisoners who were well enough tore almost ravenously into a good French meal. When they had finished, some heroes of the great battle came back to the galleys with hands outstretched, pleading for more...
...three weeks ago, Pauline and Juliet, like many other fashionable New Zealanders, sat taking tea with Pauline's mother at a restaurant in lofty Victoria Park. After tea the two girls and Mrs. Parker took advantage of the brisk, sunny afternoon to stroll down the park's winding hillside track. A few minutes later, Pauline and Juliet came racing back to the restaurant. Mrs. Parker, they said, had fallen and was desperately injured. When the doctor arrived, Pauline's mother, her face and head cruelly cut and bruised, was already dead...
...halfway around the world to win their African converts. "Some of our Kenya young men have been sent to England for advanced study. But they have been lonely in London . . . Communist agents . . . are on the lookout for just such young men. They are very friendly. They invite them to tea and to evenings of discussion. The lonely students respond quickly . . . and before long they are well on their way to becoming full-fledged Communist agents...
...Alfalfa-seed tea, long a favorite home "remedy" for arthritis and diabetes, not only lacks curative powers, but may give the user severe skin eruptions. So reported Dr. William H. Kaufman, after a study of six skin cases in Roanoke, Va. He added that such skin ailments may be hard to diagnose, since most alfalfa-tea enthusiasts are ashamed to admit that they drink the brew...
French Stories and Tales, ably edited by Stanley Geist, a young American critic and writer living in Paris, offers the richer literary experience. The selections range from a Stendhal love story, as intricate as a Japanese tea ceremony, to a fragment of Swiftian satire by Baudelaire on the suicide of a Parisian street urchin. In between, Balzac, Zola and Guy de Maupas sant lash at the favorite whipping boy of French letters, the French middle class. Best yarns in the book are stories of simple nobodies by Gustave Flaubert and Joris-Karl Huysmans...