Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After his experience with the powers that be, Barnaby speaks of his current team's chances for success with cautious optimism. "We could be a formidable team, a strong contender,:" he said. "Princeton, with a strong top tea, should be the team to beat. Columbia and Penn are also strong. We have some good players, though. I would say we should be in a real challenge for second, with an outside chance to beat Princeton...
When Jonathan Scott was brought in as the first outsider ever to head the 116-year-old and no longer Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., observers knew that he would swing the ax like no insider ever could. Last week, after only a month on the job, Chairman Scott, 44, took a tradition-shattering step toward revitalizing a company that long ago lost its place as the monarch of U.S. food retailing. He knew that A. & P.'s secretive, sometimes smug management had determinedly followed outmoded policies. It failed to invest in modern suburban supermarkets but held...
...grandest specimens of calligraphic painting in Japanese history, Konoe Nobutada's Six Principles for the Composition of Poems; and a coarse, cracked Shigaraki water jar that is said to have belonged to no less a master than Sen no Rikyū, the man who codified the tea ceremony as a formal art and was in effect the Petronius Arbiter of Momoyama taste...
...defense tightened up in the second half and teamwork and aggressiveness began to pay off. But the tea, ran into foul trouble, as two players fouled out of the game, and four others wound up with four fouls apiece...
...Tea Date. Then, on the day that the Senate convened in January 1961, Senator Clinton Anderson introduced his new blonde receptionist to Jackson. She was Helen Hardin, a divorcee, daughter of the president of American Gypsum Co. in Albuquerque and graduate of Scripps College and Columbia University, where she earned a master's degree in contemporary literature, specializing in Virginia Woolf. A date for tea in the Senate dining room led to bicycling dates and to marriage in December. Jackson was 49; his wife...