Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herald Tribune announced that the boy, on being caught, said calmly: "I haven't got my shoes on." It later turned out that little Francis, a child of Puerto Rican parents, knew only one English word, "Godfrey," and because of the influence of television, thought that it meant "tea bag." But amid the happy hysteria nobody minded...
...years the 500 employees of Sheffield machine tools factory "mashed" (Sheffield lingo for brewed) their own tea at midmorning, lunchtime and midafternoon. They brought their own tea, milk, sugar, mugs and teapots, got boiling water from the firm's gas boilers...
Last week management decided that tea-mashing was slowing down production, offered to provide free cups of tea twice a day, and give the men an extra ten-minute break in the morning. "To deny them the right to make tea in their own time is taking away their liberties," protested the plant's union. The 500 went out on strike...
...were not at all satisfied. Teheran newspapers put their untrammeled imaginations to bear, with varied results: MVD men had shot the ambassador when he tried to flee to the U.S. embassy; the ambassador had shot himself; the ambassador had tried to do himself in with a poisoned cup of tea. The embassy press attache issued a statement calling all the reports "tendentious, mendacious and I don't know what," then clammed up. The gates of the embassy slammed shut, leaving the world outside to wonder when-and if-it would ever see Anatoly Lavrentiev again...
...thousand miles south of Nairobi, the fear of spreading Mau Mauism haunts the fertile British Protectorate of Nyasaland. The colony's 4,400 Britons raise bumper crops of tea, tobacco and citrus fruits along the Shire River valley, which drains the 360-mile-long Lake Nyasa (see map). They are outnumbered more than 500-to-one by 2,500,000 Africans, whom they call "niggers" and "coons." Last week...