Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while this attractive little crew is waiting in port for their captain to sober up (it's been two weeks, y'know), so they can sail to Africa and make a killing in uranium, they become entangled with a British tourist and his wife (Jennifer Jones'). These tea-soaked commoners hold illusions of grandeur and romance which fool the intriguers as thoroughly as they fool the Britishers themselves...
...with him as he goes along. He finds comedy in everyday trials-a frustrating conversation with a child who keeps hanging up the phone, a speck of dirt in a glass of milk, TV commercials, a dentist ominously taking X rays. Perhaps best known is his airline routine ("Coffee, tea or milk?" chirps the stewardess, although the wing is on fire); because of the recent disasters, the sketch has been retired, but many airlines still use the record during stewardess training. Berman builds his long routines forward and backward from initial jokes, as in his newest piece, which grew around...
...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the nation's largest grocery chain, reported that nine-month profits soared to a record $1.88 per share from $1.59, and the company rewarded stockholders with an extra 20? per share and a 3% stock dividend on top of the regular 25? quarterly dividend...
...overcoatless in all weather. Though he no longer singlehanded lifts Cubs off the ground, a feat he once liked to perform to amaze onlookers, he often pauses at the production line to lend a hand in hoisting a wing into position. He is dead set against liquor, tobacco, tea and coffee...
...school's first students have been startled at the rolled-up-sleeves attitude of their seven top U.S. faculty members. They expected donnish tea and talk from Dean Alvin D. Loving, a U.S. Negro, instead found him wading in the mud, bossing construction workers. Even old Oxonians now gruffly praise the notion that education can honor "the dignity of labor," and that professors should research sociological and economic problems. Half the country's university students are now studying not Blackstone, Cicero or Tennyson but science and medicine...