Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Before anyone could suggest the alternative of bilking the rich even more, Britain's "Iron Chancellor" pointed out that even if the government taxed away all income over $10,000, the revenues would yield only $800 million. That might just keep the nation awash in subsidized tea for one more year-but not much longer...
Despite his concern for the very young, most of the 70 poisonings Hartman treats every year involve teenagers. In part, this is because of their fondness for "natural" foods, like the "tea" brewed out of Jimson weed, a dangerous desert plant. Sometimes plants do damage without being consumed. A few years ago, for example, a California youth died from poisons in an oleander branch that he had used to skewer hot dogs over a campfire...
...Pooks has grown accustomed to tea and cocktail parties, and with all the attention he gets at them, it's no wonder he's anxious to get there early. "I love my Pooks more than anything else in the world," Rostropovich told one of the guests, and apparently he wasn't exaggerating. Rostropovich interrupted his tour of England in the summer of 1974 to visit Pooks, who was in quarantine in the finest animal infirmary in France...
Weideger thinks that women will have to accept the reality of cyclical moods and deal with them, if necessary, through exercise or hormone treatment. Feminists are now exchanging home remedies all the way from lower back massage and raspberry leaf tea to taking calcium ("nature's tranquilizer," said Nutritionist Adelle Davis) before their periods. Some ardent feminists are even urging women friends to examine, smell and taste their own menstrual blood as a way of overcoming traditional attitudes toward menstruation. Others are promoting menstrual extraction-a risky suction procedure-to avoid days of bleeding...
...ready and even anxious to establish diplomatic relations with the U.S.-"as soon as possible," North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong told visiting Senator George McGovern in Hanoi last month. The Vietnamese, McGovern was told, would welcome trade with American companies. North Viet Nam has potential exports of tea, art, jute and oil, and is desperately in need of the kind of technology the U.S. can provide...