Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Williams quickly hypothesized tint the Rio Negro might in effect be an immense tea, pontaining infusions of plant and tree substances similar to the insect hormones. Scooping up the dark river water, Williams and his colleagues, Professors Fotis Kafatos of Harvard and David Prescott of the University of Colorado, freeze-dried and boiled the water to concentrate the chemicals in it, extracted them with solvents, then injected the resulting solution into immature cockroaches. Sure enough, the roaches all died without reaching sexual maturity...
...When I'm Sixty-Four" laughs off the ravages of old age with a saxand--traps parody of last generation's pop. The Beatles parody ragtime with a total affection that betrays their longing for good old Sgt. Pepper's simpler, tea-dance age. (Through no coincidence, they have written three lovely fox trots in as many albums). The singer ("yours sincerely, wasting away") is looking forward to every possible kind of social security, not just the financial variety...
...France's Empress Eugenie and set out for her own party at the Saratoga Golf Club. Even Marylou, as she has styled herself ever since she got to like the signature on her oil paintings, admitted that the big pearls might seem "too much" for just an afternoon tea dance. But if ever a gal needed a lift last week, it was Marylou...
...community. Not that they didn't all know each other; after all, it was the fifth party that Marylou had given in eight days. Nor was it because that, in honor of the Belmont Ball committee, she had invited them to, of all things, an after-the-races tea dance. "There are so many cocktail parties," Marylou said, "I wanted to do something just a little different." The reason for the apprehension was that "they"-the Wideners, the Wetherills, the Vanderbilts and the Sanfords-would all want to know about "it"-the $780,000 jewel robbery at the Whitneys...
...dame, still lives in her 50-room "cottage," Wake-hurst, surrounded by a fortune in art and a dozen servants. Bailey's Beach, where the memberships pass from father to son, is still "the most exclusive swimming hole in the U.S." In the Newport Casino, ladies still sip tea under parasols, while their husbands, decked out in white flannels and old school blazers, watch the tennis matches. And at nightfall, there is the Preservation Society Ball, the Tennis Ball, the White Elephant Ball, the Jazz Festival, plus a progression of wedding receptions and black-tie soirees in honor...