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Word: teas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business neighborhoods. And the omens look good: according to the lore of the Street, when the little odd-lotter starts buying heavily, the market will soon take a dive. But when the odd-lotter sells, the market will rise. Right now, he is selling. Anyway, all such tea leaves aside, the Dow-Jones average seems certain to pass the 1000 mark within days or weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: On Toward 1000 | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

...bump off Communist agents and vice versa. Loyalties are obscured because you don't know who's working for whom; sympathies are initially nonexistant because the good guys are every bit as ruthless as the bad. Control, head of British intelligence, is well done by Cyril Cusack with his tea pots and easy acceptance of Cold War expediencies. He says to Leamas (Burton): "Our policies are peaceful, but our methods can't afford to be less ruthless than our enemies'--occasionally we have to do wicked things. The West is never the aggressor, but since the war our techniques have...

Author: By Anne P. Buxton, | Title: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold | 1/6/1966 | See Source »

...came when the Master of the House invited himself up to Tea one afternoon. Unfortunately, George did not remain quiet, and soon after the Master arrived she began to whine and growl in a most piteous way and to knock on the door to the living room behind which she was incarcertated. The Master, remarking on the peculiarity of the noises issuing from behind the door, opened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY PET, THE PANDA | 1/4/1966 | See Source »

...major heart attack. Polls show Ronald Reagan's lead in the California gubernatorial race declining. Reagan grows a beard, loses 40 pounds, and begins a series of ten-minute addresses at grand openings of Forest Lawn Cemetary branches. The Fellows of Harvard College and their wives attend a tea given by Mrs. Bunting at her new home. Soon after, Mrs. Helen Gurley Brown, author of "Sex and the Single Girl," is appointed first mistress of the tenth House, Ingraham House. Mrs. Brown is a non-academic. As nights become warmer and rumors fly, Harvard freshmen nervously sandbag entrances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tealeaves and Taurus | 1/3/1966 | See Source »

...Great Conspiracy Against America first came to light in 1797, when the pulpits of New England rang with denunciations of the Illuminati, a sinister society of freethinkers who were purportedly prepared to attack the U.S. with a number of secret weapons-among them a tea that caused abortion and a "method for filling a bedchamber with pestilential vapours." By 1835, control of the conspiracy had passed to the Pope, whose Jesuits were reported "prowling about all parts of the United States in disguise" and conjugating in clandestine convents with unnatural nuns. By 1951, according to Senator McCarthy, the perennial enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It's All a Plot | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

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