Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...herbalists too are becoming more adventurous in their tastes. Last year 6 million households spent $46 million growing herbs, in contrast with 5 million spending $39 million the year before. Some make tea from them, some bathe in them, some swear to their healing powers. Having mastered the basic basil, rosemary and sage, gardeners move on to lovage stems, bee-balm blossoms and lemon grass. The health conscious prize herbs as a salt substitute, while the cost conscious find that pricey, herb-flavored vinegars and oils are easily made at home...
...sign up as contestants. Communist Party hard-liners, however, apparently felt that bourgeois tendencies were getting out of hand. Television coverage of the event was canceled. Instead, 40 quarter-finalists assembled last week before a sprinkling of spectators in an austere union hall for what was dubbed a tea party. Rather than choose a single Miss Beijing, the pageant organizers honored twelve "outstanding contestants who left a relatively deep impression." Several were chosen for their "inner beauty" rather than their physical attributes...
Along with people who organized the food and jobs, there was a drug steward, self-appointed. There was even a house pusher named Fat George, who didn't go to Harvard. After one pot shipment, the stems were used to make tea. "Nobody realized how strong it would be," said Edward Barna '70. "That was a very interesting night...
Others complain that she has no right to act like an official. "She misbehaves," says a Soviet translator. "She shouldn't lecture everyone she meets." Over tea and blini, the women in the dachas of the privileged grumble that she does not know her place, that she is reversing the traditional roles of the sexes. "She's a shrew," says one Muscovite. "She wears the pants in the family...
...this year, thanks to the EPA's influence. Under a plan agreed to by all parties, Champion would spend $200 million over the next three years on a bleaching process for its wastes. Its goal would be to change the Pigeon's color to the shade of weak iced tea...