Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...master of Go is a living anachronism in the aggressive Japan of the years just before World War II. He plays the game in the old courtly way, making it a ritual as steeped in aristocratic value as the Japanese tea ceremony or the No drama. His young challenger, a fine player and engaging fellow, nevertheless embodies the raw modern spirit. His game is tense and cheerless, "an inexorable gnawing...
...health: "Never eat meat or drink tea, coffee or wine again as long as you live. Don't take any exercise, and do exactly the opposite of what the doctor advises." On education: "High School is teaching you nothing except how to become a high school mistress...
Patients battling the fever of a cold or flu are often advised to take aspirin, and sometimes to drink hot tea. Is that traditional advice sound? Not according to two British pharmacologists, Anthony Milton and Michael Dascombe of the University of London's School of Pharmacy. Aspirin does reduce high temperature, but caffeine-a stimulant present in tea, coffee and some types of cola drinks-appears to keep body heat up when taken in quantity. Thus the two substances cancel out each other's effects...
Doctors are not yet sure how caffeine raises fever or blocks aspirin's cooling properties. They speculate that caffeine may stimulate release of certain fever-producing hormones. But pending further study, they have some simple advice: fever sufferers should avoid tea, coffee and medications containing caffeine. To wash down aspirin, use water...
...warmer relations with L.B.J. might help ease the chill of the meeting. At Johnson's insistence, neither staff nor reporters were invited. Johnson greeted the candidates in ranch clothes and a flowing, whitish Buffalo Bill mane. Sitting in lawn chairs beneath a towering oak as they sipped iced tea, then going inside the ranch house for a steak lunch, the trio chatted for almost three hours. L.B.J. offered some campaign advice: talk to people on the phone for at least two hours every day; make sure you get a solid nap every day in your pajamas...