Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sausage Skins for Steel. Other U.S. allies share Britain's attitude: ¶ French businessmen signed an $11.2 million contract with Peking at the Moscow Economic Conference. The deal: French metals and chemicals for Chinese silk, tea and sausage casings. ¶ West Germans in 1951 swapped $4 million worth of chemicals and machinery for Chinese ores and hog bristles...
...praying day after day. Last week, as the tenth day of the ordeal dawned, sightseers from all over New Delhi streamed to the burying place afoot and on camelback to watch Narayan's disinterment. Cymbals and harmoniums clanged and wheezed, hucksters did a land-office business in hot tea...
...matter how it is steeped, garrison life for occupation troops near the provincial Lower Saxony town of Wolfenbuttel is a weak dish of tea. But something new and refreshingly British was added when the young Marquess of Blandford, son of the Duke of Marlborough, took up station there as captain in the Life Guards, one of Her Majesty's oldest and finest regiments. The Marquess, a real sporting chap, brought not only his young bride but also the ducal hounds. The 25-year-old Marquess and his fellow officers had no trouble rounding up pink coats, and the hunt...
...Gallery's show of Japanese art was the one to see. The Japanese government itself sponsored the exhibition, selected 91 of Japan's most cherished paintings and sculptures from the 6th century to the 19th. They were all masterpieces, all precisely naturalistic and all as traditional as tea. On opening day, 25,000 people crushed into the National Gallery to see a regal, 8th century statue of the Buddhist saint Shuho-o, paintings of black-faced thunder gods, delicately colored trees, birds and flowers. A popular favorite: a dryly humorous Scroll of Animals (1100 A.D.) which shows monkeys...
...small wilderness, the rectory itself rundown and rat-ridden. The rector refused to see anyone without four days notice-in writing. His only steady contact with the parish was Burt Mefton, a handyman who brought him his groceries. The rector lived on oatmeal, apples and bread. He sent his tea and candy rations to needy parishioners...