Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside the bunker, Brigadier General Ali Hussein, the Syrian sector commander, offered us tea and baklava. Hussein, who spent one year training in the U.S. at Fort Benning, explained that in former days "the Arabs and Jews lived with each other. They used to love each other. But then came Israel and forced the Arabs out. Then came the feeling of hostility...
...office in Cairo's Abdin Palace. Its confined formality, he tells visitors, reminds him of prisons he was sent to for revolutionary plotting in Egypt's "colonial "days. Sadat is far more relaxed when he stays at one of his presidential resthouses outside Cairo. Recently, over tea and Turkish coffee in a resthouse beside the pyramids, he discussed his plans and dreams for Egypt with TIME Correspondents Wilton Wynn and Karsten Prager. Among his points...
...conversation began like this: I picked up an automatic device for squeezing lemon juice for tea and said, "What a silly thing for your people to exhibit in the Soviet Union, Mr. Nixon. All you need for tea is a couple of drops of lemon juice. I think it would take a housewife longer to use this gadget than it would for her to do what our housewives do: slice a piece of lemon, drop it into a glass of tea, then squeeze a few drops out with a spoon. I don't think this appliance of yours...
...narrative voice evokes the kind of man who might be found in one of his own fictional clubs or parlors-a wryly observant uncle or older brother who has moved in wide enough circles to be able to recount a homosexual killing or an old maids' tea party with equal sympathy and equanimity...
...late March Vellucci gathered the independents, including Danehy, to a pre-council meeting tea in the mayor's office. There he convinced his colleagues to draw up a resolution endorsing construction of the Kennedy Library in Harvard Square...