Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tea Days. Yet year after year, despite the competition from bigger, richer, more glamorous schools, Merritt manages to field a fearsome team. Why? One reason is that many young black athletes, particularly from the South, feel more comfortable playing for a black coach at a black school than they would if they went north or west. Most of the Tennessee State players come from poor families, and to them, football is a way out of poverty. Merritt's record and the proven interest of professional scouts are powerful incentives. Says Raymond Bryant, a tough linebacker: "Coach Merritt kept saying...
...Then Merritt works off the flab. "If a player wears bigger than a 34 pants size, he has to buy 'em himself," says the coach, who covers his own generous frame with flashy shirts and colorful wide ties. Overweight players are also required to follow a ritual called "tea day," consuming nothing but tea two days a week. Barking orders through a cloud of cigar smoke, Merritt teaches pro-style football -tough defense coupled with a grind-it-out, ball-control offense that features short passes...
...today, having struggled through years of raised eyebrows and quizzical looks, not to mention near anonymity, Sha Na Na has reached the summit of the popularity charts, commanding top billings and superstar payoffs. The days of three-in-a room road trips and one-night stands at the Boston Tea Party have been replaced by opulent concert tours and million-seller records...
...them were put to bed for two weeks while four, selected as controls, remained ambulatory. Those on bed rest had to remain horizontal at all times, except during meals when they could rest on one elbow. Diet was carefully controlled and such foods as vanilla, bananas, pineapple, coffee and tea-all of which contain chemicals that might interfere with interpretations of physiological reactions-were forbidden. Boredom was relieved by TV, stereo, books and, according to a NASA press release, "a lot of needlework by the participants...
Moon does not fit the standard image of the guru out of the East. At 53, he is, in fact, a millionaire whose holdings in various enterprises (including ginseng tea, titanium production, pharmaceuticals, air rifles) are worth perhaps $15 million. The business success has grown hand-in-hand with his religious endeavors, which began, as he tells it, with a vision of Jesus Christ on a Korean mountainside in 1936, a vision that told young Moon-then a Presbyterian-to "carry out my undone task...