Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Constant Energy. By the time the tour was finished, the girls had handled integrated tea party or segregated breakfast with equal aplomb. They had spoken their piece for people who distrusted Catholics ("The Catholic Church," said Eunice, "does not influence Jack in any way except a religious way"), people who were worried about the oil-depletion allowance, who resented Lyndon Johnson's second place on the ticket. Their energy was a source of constant consternation to everyone who tried to keep up with them. They had hardly arrived at the L.B.J. Ranch for a rest before the Kennedy girls...
...TEA-SIPPING is soaring. Imports this year will total record 117 million Ibs. to U.S. Some 35% of tea drunk will be iced...
Only then did Francis Powers get to meet his family. They sat about a small room behind the court for an hour, and though the Russians had laid out tea and caviar sandwiches, nobody had much appetite. Powers cried as he kissed Barbara. They talked glumly about mundane things: how to ship the furniture from Turkey to the U.S., whether to sell their car. For the next three years, Oliver Powers explained afterward, his son "will be working in a factory and confined to prison. After that he will serve seven years in a work camp studying the Communist system...
...profit squeeze has led many firms to diversify in search of new sources of profits. Some retail jewelers are widening their lines to include typewriters, radios, stereo phonographs and small appliances. Shrinking profits have hit such giant food chains as A. & P., National Tea and Kroger, though some others have relieved the pinch by selling more and more items besides food. The Jewel Tea Co. chain (277 stores) has hiked its profits since it added high-profit-margin nonfood items-including brassieres...
...talks ended, Nyasaland's leading white delegate, A.C.W. Dixon, turned to Dr. Banda and glowed: "Do call me up as soon as you get back, and let's have a cup of tea together." But within 24 hours Banda gave an interview suggesting that he had only postponed his more extreme demands: "I am coming back to England very soon. And next time, I shall say, 'Now, Mr. Colonial Secretary, I want this and this and this.'" Such bluster might only be meant to reassure extremists back home. A reporter pressed a further question: Is independence...