Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked at once, and promptly sat down to pack two boxes. She lamely tried to stuff chocolates into trays that glided slowly past her on a conveyor belt, but found the job difficult. "It takes concentration, doesn't it?" she said with a frown. In a tea factory, she gamely swallowed a bitter brew rather than spit it out into a handy spittoon. "Of course I'm not going to spit it out," she joked to disappointed photographers...
...leftist shop stewards that the Tory press loves to attack. If the Tories go for the easy option of making the unions scapegoats, they risk a confrontation besides which the miners' strike of 1974 (which brought down the Health government) and the disruptions of last winter will seem like tea-parties...
Chitrabhanu writes that during a conversation with a well-known professor, a master of meditation began pouring tea into the educator's cup. Even though the cup had long overflowed, he continued to pour until the professor finally asked him, "What are you doing?" The tea has overflowed the cup but still you keep on pouring! Why do you keep trying to put more in when there is no room left in the cup?" The master replied, "Yes, my friend, you are right. Your mind is like this teacup. It is filled to the brim with opinions and prejudices, dogma...
...ideological and political and military competition." These salvos were just a taste of what is likely to be months of impassioned national argument over the accord's merits, a potentially acrimonious fight that could make last year's Panama Canal Treaty debate seem like a tea party...
There were three concerts, all televised nationally. At the first, there was a row of armchairs with snowy antimacassars and little tables set for tea. The occupants turned out to be top members of the Chinese Establishment: Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing), Foreign Minister Huang Hua, Vice Premier Fang Yi and Mme. Sun Yatsen, who is in her late 80s. During the intermission, Deng held a reception at which he said in effect that he did not know much about music but he knew what he liked: anything that promoted friendship. After the concert...