Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conable said it was his first time in the Oval Office. Ford looked surprised, assured him it would not be his last. The President ordered iced tea for the two and they settled on the sofas. "Is that a Gilbert Stuart?" asked Conable, admiring the portrait of George Washington over the fireplace. "I don't know," said the President. "I haven't been here long enough." Conable got down to business. "What kind of Vice President do you want?" he asked Ford. "Wait a minute," said the President, "I asked you here to tell me what kind...
Last week Ecevit met with TIME'S John Shaw and Mehmet Ali Kislali in his spacious office in Ankara. Over tea and with a relief map of Cyprus on the wall near him, Ecevit gave his views of the situation...
...Relishing his independence, he delivered his record filibuster against a bill giving away offshore oil lands to the coastal states. Mindful that his hero La Follette had almost been poisoned by some tainted eggnog he had sipped during a talkathon, Morse had an aide scrutinize the preparation of his tea, orange juice and bouillon. Only poisoned words flowed that memorable night in the Senate...
...have been creating havoc. On the major highway to Spain, a thousand fruit growers dumped tons of pears onto the roadway, creating a twelve-mile traffic jam. In Le Havre, Norman peasants stopped dockers from unloading beef from an Argentine ship and, in a variation of the old Boston Tea Party, threw tons of the meat into the Channel. In other areas farmers hung dead chickens in front of local officials' homes, let pigs and cattle loose in village streets, and even halted the sacrosanct Tour de France bicycle race by covering the road with nails...
...England. In our own century, Broadway audiences were confronted with the topic during the twenties and thirties through such plays as The Captive, The Pleasure Man (by Mae West--who, we tend to forget, wrote as well as acted), The Children's Hour, The Green Bay Tree and, later, Tea and Sympathy. Prior to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Williams himself had invoked the subject tangentially in A Streetcar Named Desire, and would return to it more seriously three years later in Suddenly Last Summer...