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Word: teas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What the party needs is unity and not intellectuals who produce neither bread nor steel but only chitchat." Six of the more outspoken students were suspended from the university, and Kolakowski was expelled from the party and accused of a long list of "crimes" including having "sat down to tea with Cardinal Wyszynski," the Polish primate, and having had a prolonged meeting with American Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University. When a group of Poland's leading artists and writers wrote letters to the Politburo demanding Kolakowski's reinstatement, 13 of the petitioners were also expelled or suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: No Place for Chitchat | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...cares little for haute couture. Dory Previn charitably describes Julie's wardrobe as "old-fashioned"; the less charitable call it "frumpish." Burton's exwife, Sybil Christopher, adds that "Julie is hopeless with servants, and they take advantage of her. She ends up pouring their tea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Now & Future Queen | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...into the wild sea. Or evenings, boating on the Wey River, those two would literally fight for the privilege of taking the oars. To this day, Julie is naturally a country girl. There is nothing she likes better than to get down here, tramping about, shedding it all, serving tea with the local ladies at a cricket match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Now & Future Queen | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...Good Trouper." By the time Fair Lady opened in New Haven, Julie was the onstage backbone of the show and a walloping hit. Backstage she was the funny bone of the company-brewing up high tea every afternoon, expertly picking every pocket in the cast, bounding into her old music-hall routines. Everyone but Harrison was amused, but in the New York premiere he, too, came to appreciate Julie. As the stage manager recalls it, during the first act when Eliza, Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering fall back on the couch together after The Rain in Spain, Harrison suddenly dried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Now & Future Queen | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

Without Coffee. The commuter lines can. The economical Beech planes that HUB will use need only 3.1 passengers to break even. The flight is generally more expensive than a similar flight on a jet, and there are no hostesses, coffee, tea or milk. What the commuter craft does is provide transport for businessmen anxious to negotiate deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: The Commuters | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

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