Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dice in the Tea...
...residents of Allen's Alley and their zany humor. Remember Falstaff Openshaw? "From miles around you could hear the boom, as Mother fell out of the Rainbow Room!" or "Those aren't spots in your sugar. Mother: you're putting the dice in your tea...
...back in those days only competition in tory-baiting and tea-pot partying existed. Then came the great westward expansion and as more institutions of higher learning sprouted up, more nicknames were invented: Indians, Bulldogs, Lions, Tigers, Bears, Bobcats, Bearcats, and as the line of civilization moved west, Bison, Buffalo, Pumas and Losers. The Losers was the nickname Custer's soldiers, unlucky miners, and the Pony Express...
...equal fascination to researchers is the persistence of memory, the ability not only to store but also to recall information and experiences. In Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel released a flood of memories by tasting a tea-soaked petite Madeleine. Others have found that a memory-jogging whiff of perfume, a word, a few notes of music can conjure up similar-and often realistic-recollections of events they experienced many years earlier. A landmark discovery was made by the great Canadian neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, when he found that he could stimulate memories electrically. Probing a patient...
...permission of the Boston authorities - and threw empty oil drums into the harbor to protest the petroleum industry's failure to head off the fuel crisis. As a final ingredient in the Watergate-laden atmosphere, many Bostonians noted only half in jest that the site of the original tea party has now been filled in. It is occupied by the head quarters of the Sheraton hotel chain, a division of ITT, a company that has been deeply implicated in the Administration scandals...