Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After the villagers, many with blood ties to Viet Cong guerrillas, held a meeting in which they enthusiastically burned a Viet Cong and a North Viet Nam flag and pledged allegiance to the Saigon government, the Viet Cong machine-gunned Police Chief Lam as he sat at tea. In Binh Dinh province, where 14 teams have already secured 14 hamlets, got 34 village self-help projects under way and resettled 6,500 people, five officials have been assassinated by the Communists. But, says former U.S. Marine Major Richard Kriegel, the spark behind Binh Dinh's pacification thrust: "The reaction...
...starting"). He will also learn, if he listens, that by 1918 the bobbed-hair and spats set had their pick of some 100,000 trolleys and 45,000 miles of track to take them out to the ball game or off to the amusement park, or even to tea dances at Philadephia's Bellevue-Stratford...
...tide (and on nearly every page). May-may, a Chinese concubine who gargles baby urine. Gorth Brock, a bastardo degenerado. Wolfgang Mauss. Shevaun. The priapic painter Aristotle Quance. Redhaired, green-eyed, sharkproof Dirk Struan, Tai-Pan (Supreme Leader) of The Noble House, trader in poppies, mayhem and tea...
...Cellist Gregor Piatagorsky is wrong. Sergei Rachmaninoff [May 13] did take students. One of them was the well-known pianist, Ruth Slenczynska, who describes her lessons with Rachmaninoff in her book Forbidden Childhood. As a teacher, he was apparently a painstaking technician who, after lessons, served his student tea in a glass...
...long as it wore the air of fantasy. His frontispiece for John Davidson's The Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender of 1895 shows a barely bosomed lady flagellating a middle-sexed supplicant, wielding the most fragile of whips as if it were a fan at high tea...