Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once upon a time," said Nikita, "there were three men in a prison. They were a Social Democrat, an anarchist and a humble little Jew?a half-educated,little fellow named Pinya. They decided to elect a cell leader who would watch over distribution of food, tea and tobacco. The anarchist, a big, burly fellow, was against such a lawful process as electing authority. To show his contempt for law and order, he proposed that insignificant little Pinya be elected. They elected Pinya. Things went well, and they decided to escape. The Social Democrat had a good intellect; he made...
...Tea Bags & Insults. Disregarding recommendations of his own citizens' committee (which suggested a bond issue and such new service charges as a trash-collection and auto users' fee), the mayor and his nine-man city council adopted an income tax ordinance without a public vote. Shouts of outrage echoed in the Rockies, as the Denver citizenry dramatized memories of the Boston Tea Party by waving tea bags at protest meetings and crying, "No taxation without representation!"* Newspapers took sides, and, surprisingly, the hard-hit Chamber of Commerce, figuring that the tax would drive still more people into...
Though Indonesian Premier Djuanda threatened "drastic action" against unauthorized seizures of Dutch property, SOBSI-led workers seized a Dutch club in Palembang, largest city of south Sumatra, two banks in Semarang in central Java, tea, coffee, rubber and palm-oil plantations in northern Sumatra and west Java...
...recent weeks Cairo has been alive with indignation over shipments of Russian wheat so rotten that it turned the bread green, of Communist Chinese tea so full of impurities that it had to be thrown away. The flood of Russian literature that pours into Egypt these days has left the average Egyptian totally unmoved; most of it is sold by weight for wrapping papers. Cairo housewives particularly like a magazine called Russia Today for wrapping bananas. "It doesn't tear so easily," said one. Nearly every machine in Egypt is Western-made, and for lack of spare parts...
...schedule, the affable monarch returned to Manhattan for a reunion with his daughters, a jaunt up to West Point (where as chief of a state he granted a traditional amnesty to all cadets undergoing punishments), an evening at the Metropolitan Opera (Bohème), plus an invitation to tea with Eleanor Roosevelt and a good prospect of being awfully tired all over again before he gets back to sunny Morocco...