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Word: teas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seats in the 95-member Parliament. Chief opposition to his United National Party was an unlikely coalition called the People's United Front, comprised of such uneasy partners as a Buddhist party, a Trotskyite group and the supernationalist Ceylon Freedom Party. The coalition demanded the nationalization of all tea and rubber plantations still in British hands, and the ejection of British forces from the new Commonwealth nation of Ceylon. (The naval base at Trincomalee and the air base at Negombo are the last remaining British bases between the Middle East and Malaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: Surprising Defeat | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...tourists will find one of the world's oldest cultures and some of its most awesomely rugged scenery. Within reach of the big cities are such sights as the magnificent, white marble Taj Mahal at Agra, the ancient Holy City of Benares, Mt. Everest looming over the green tea gardens of Darjeeling. Off the beaten track are trips to the village of Molar Bund, 16 miles from New Delhi, which is entirely inhabited by snake charmers, and to the famed cave temples of Elephanta and Ajanta. For $1,500 per person, two-week tiger hunts can be arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TRAVEL IN THE FAR EAST | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Even the spring social openers were disrupted. In Lyman Laboratory students bemoaned the cancellation of the Monday afternoon tea-and-cake session with the Physics staff. At the Lampoon offices the annual robin-redbreast hunt was postponed until the thaw...

Author: By F. W. Byron jr., | Title: Biggest Blizzard of Year Paralyzes University With Two Feet of Snow | 3/20/1956 | See Source »

...first glance, Graham Greene seems to have changed his theme. His recent novels-The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair-were religious dramas about the human soul struggling amid gin-or-tea trivialities between salvation and damnation. In his latest novel, he writes of individuals who stand for worlds and nations-the U.S., Britain, Asia-struggling amid blood-and-opium enormities between relative degrees of misrule. Yet in a sense, the heart of the matter is still the same. Whatever uncozy corner Greene chooses for his settings, whether West Africa, Mexico, Indo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greene Hell of Indo-China | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Payment Deferred. In Sendai, Japan, Gennosuke Ikeda was arrested after an auto salesman called on him to collect payment on a car, was served a cup of poisoned tea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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