Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Status Seekers. It was almost like the Mad Hatter's tea party, with the Western Three pouring tea on the Russian dormouse's nose. Seemingly nothing could shake Russia's taciturn Andrei Gromyko. And then at last, at 3:45 p.m., Gromyko, without a flicker of emotion, withdrew his demand that the Germans sit with the Big Four. The three Westerners then agreed to adopt a round table, but with the two German groups sitting apart, at separate tables. How close? Gromyko took six pencils and laid them side by side. "Just this far," he said stolidly...
...darker Dixie-to-come: "I hope that in a third of a century not only will we be integrated and almost all racism will be a historic fact we read about in old books, but I hope we'll be a lot further along toward all becoming tea-colored...
...time, it usually has to split to sell in a popular price range. The stock of Upjohn Co., valued at $1,125 a share, was split 25 for i before public sale so that the price to the public was $45 a share. Similarly, when the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. wanted to sell a large block this spring, it first split the old shares, selling at around $500, so that the price to the public was $44.50 a share. Even conservative underwriters think there is a time for companies to split. Says Sumner Emerson, partner of Morgan Stanley...
...reception hall of the management the guests drink tea and shower Natalia Vasilievna with questions about the labor conditions and daily life of the plant's workers...
...Headmaster Alexander Florian talk of Greenslade's children. The school allowed no punishment of a child. Most of them were from impoverished homes, said the headmaster, and "a child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling." Recalls Braithwaite: "My own experiences . . . invaded my thoughts, reminding me that these children were white, and as far as I was concerned, that fact...