Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsibility or complicity in the gas-chamber and concentration-camp deaths of 4,000,000 Russians, 160,000 Jews and 72,000 Poles. After nearly a decade in prison and four months on trial, frail emaciated Erich Koch, now 62, was still defiant. Coughing into a handkerchief, sipping tea and porridge to rally his strength, Koch made long, fiery speeches in Polish in his own defense, disputing the court's right to try him, insisting that Polish Communists were guilty of crimes worse than those he was charged with. Between speeches he listened glumly to wartime recordings...
...result, they appear as a set of almost interchangeably cheerful young men. Gretchen Kanne misses the hothouse bloom of Gwendolyn, who exists in and through Society like an elegant bacterium in its nutrient broth. (In the midst of an ineffably decorous cat-fight, Gwendolyn accepts a cup of tea from her rival with the aside, "Detestable girl! But I require tea!") (italics mine...
...lecture (subject: "The Future of Europe") duly applauded, Laborite Peer Lord Attlee settled down for tea at Indiana's Valparaiso University. Cream or lemon?asked the hostess.Answered Attlee, with just the flicker of a smirk: "Ever since the Boston Tea Party, you Americans have been trying to dredge up our bloomin' tea and give it back to us. No, thanks-I'll have coffee...
...Turkish officials, Members of Parliament and newsmen for final talks on a Cyprus settlement. His secretary had pulled him through a hole in the wreckage. Margaret Bailey, a former nurse, drove them through the woods to her 14th century farm cottage, wrapped them in hot blankets, served them tea and some of her precious 1868 brandy...
...brightest earnings news last week came from companies that sell directly to the U.S. consumer. Jewel Tea profits were up 12% to $7,800,000 in 1958, S. S. Kresge up 4% to $13.8 million, Kroger up 5% to a record $21.6 million. Retailers across the U.S. were setting an even faster pace in 1959. Compared with January 1958, last month's sales were up 7.2% for Lerner Stores, 7.8% for National Shirt Shops, 11.5% for S. H. Kress, 17% for Franklin Stores, 18.2% for Peoples Drug Stores...