Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tibet, the Dalai Lama's advisers placed two balls of kneaded tsamba in a golden bowl of water, one to indicate that the Dalai Lama should leave Lhasa, the other that he should not. When the answer turned out to be yes, they set out cups of buttered tea for good luck, made their way over the mountain passes in freezing (24° below zero) weather to a monastery only ten miles from the Indian border. When they returned to Lhasa seven months later, the Dalai Lama was no longer the power he had been. The Communists gave...
...want any of this India Bwana stuff," he would cry, and he denounced the moderate Africans in the government as "quislings" who had sold out their country for "a cup of tea in a white man's house." Though always arguing against violence, he called himself "the extremist of extremists," and had a way of stirring up his people as no man had before. He boasts: "To the majority of Africans in Nyasaland, I am the Lord Mayor's Show in London...
...hapless wife had not only to keep house, bear children and submit to her mother-in-law's tyranny, but also try desperately to hold her husband against the competition of "pillow" geishas, concubines and casual prostitutes. The tea ceremony, the fan, the kimono, flower arranging, the obi, the intricate hairdo, the beautifully mannered deference-all became subtle weapons of allurement. The kimono was cunningly cut to reveal the nape of the neck, a feature that to Japanese men seems more erotic than bosom or thigh...
Japanese businessmen are slow to hire educated girls for decent positions. A girl college graduate says bitterly: "Yes, I can get a job in business, all right: serving tea to the office help." The Japanese male is proving skittish about marrying the emancipated female. He wants an old-fashioned girl just like the girl who married dear old Dad: thrifty, a good cook, plain rather than pretty, cheerful, obedient, and with "just enough spunk to make life interesting...
...much whom he sees as how he sees them. After his formal audience with the Swiss Guards, the Pope settled down with them for a cup of tea. "We see each other every day," he said, "but we never get a chance to talk-you because of discipline and I because of protocol. It's about time we got better acquainted." He told the motorcycle cops: "Frankly, I would rather do without you. But you and I are both subject to rules and regulations, and we must try to make the best...