Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China's'trade with non-Communist countries has burgeoned from $673.9 million a decade ago to a record $1.8 billion this year, itself 20% above 1963.-Peking imports fertilizer, cotton, chemicals, steel and industrial machinery, exports soybeans, coal, iron ore, rice, tea and hog bristles...
...long ago, Britain's Harold Wilson, 48, was barking "I'm not a performing seal!" at lensmen who tried to photograph him drinking tea. But times do change, and in Hampstead the Prime Minister obligingly teed off to cozy up his image. It was billed as a pause in the day's grind. "I unwind quickly in the fresh air," Wilson offered, adding, in case the photographers couldn't tell: "I'm not very good at golf." Feet too close together, knee locked, arms carefully flexed, he poised to driver, ah, maybe it was supposed...
Though Pumpkin Eater in outline resembles a compendium of womanly woes, it plays like a house afire, almost invariably ignited by Actress Bancroft, who could probably strike dramatic lightning from a recitation of tide tables. Having tea at the zoo, she quietly distills despair while a prurient cuckold (James Mason) spews ugly revelations about her husband and his wife. Cornered under a hair dryer at a beauty salon, she blanches, feeling her own anguish cruelly parodied in a chance conversation with a venomous, cast-off drudge. And her spectacular scenes with Finch, pitched against the din of a more...
...This Destruction of the Tea," wrote John Adams, "is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid, and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences and so lasting, that I cannot but consider it as an Epoch in History. . ." In London William Pitt was one of the few men who shared the clarity of Adams' vision; in opposing the Boston Port Bill, one of the Coercive Acts, he prophesied that "if that mad and cruel measure should be pushed. . . England has seen her best days." Most Englishmen disagreed: "They will be Lyons whilst we are Lambs, but if we take...
...story of the Tea Party enters prominently into Professor Labaree's interpretation of the Revolution, but it also illuminates the mind and moods of colonial America before the war. He uses it to typify situations and attitudes found throughout the colonies and Great Britain, and the book is certain to become a standard work not only on the Tea Party, but on the whole pre-Revolutionary period, as well...