Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pearls & Bees. John-"that dear man" to Anne's tea-sipping cronies-was all work, although his peers regarded it as play. He produced artificial pearls from mussels he kept in the bottom of his fish pond. While Anne plunked at her pianoforte, he listened until he fixed the exact note hummed by a swarm of bees (treble A above middle C). Obliging friends and zookeepers plied him with odd creatures for dissection. Only with reluctance did he take time for his patients. "I must go and earn this damn'd guinea," he complained, "or I shall...
Only four days before Mauker's strafing, Sukarno had suspended the 257-man Indonesian Parliament, thus removing the nation's last vestige of constitutional democracy. Through his tame Supreme Advisory Council, Sukarno ordered sweeping land-reform measures, directly threatening the vast plantations producing rubber, palm oil, tobacco, tea, sugar and coffee chat have been in foreign hands for decades. It was an action that seemed certain to depress even further the nation's faltering economy (the Indonesian rupiah stands at 450 to the dollar on the free market, as opposed to a "legal" value...
...with Kuomintang bandits" and now wears an artificial pair made in the Soviet Union "especially for shaking hands with other people." Captain Chen Chi-yen ("The party made a pilot of me, a 32-year-old peasant girl") was there, and so were the "Seven Fairies" of the Hupeh tea plantation, who had found a way to pick 1,102 Ibs. of tea leaves a day. "All sisters in our country," cried the chairman of the National Women's Federation, "spur your horses again and again...
From this legend came the Kikuyu deep veneration of their mountain and the earth of its endless slopes. The Kikuyu looked with bitterness on the 12,700 sq. mi. of land especially reserved for European settlers, the rich "white highlands" whence comes most of Kenya's lucrative coffee, tea, sisal and pyrethrum. The whites in rebuttal said that their highlands were never Kikuyu territory but a neglected no man's land between contending tribes, and that the Kikuyu had badly farmed their own reserve north of Nairobi, leaving it poor and eroded...
...Nunne, Gerard meets Gertrude Quincey, a svelte but fortyish virgin. Her panting, 17-year-old niece Caroline goes to bed with Gerard first, but auntie soon follows. Author Wilson's handling of the love scenes may be summed up in one cozy Briticism ("Her mouth tasted like warm tea"). Some of Nunne's other friends are very different cups of tea, notably, a red-mopped painter named Oliver Glasp, who dilly-Dalis between nudes and Crucifixions. Wilson's defense of such characters is clearly Terence's "Nothing human is alien...