Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostages are repeatedly threatened with death. Their meals consist of Arabic bread, foul-tasting cheese and tea. Buckley's treatment reveals the full cruelty of the kidnapers. He catches a bad cold that develops into pneumonia, but the guards show him no mercy. "Mr. Buckley is dying," Father Jenco pleads one day. "He is sick. He has dry heaves. Give us liquids...
...England, we have a social tea after a game. Here, it's 'them and us'," Baker said. "I'm blown over by the intensity of the competition...
...mother does not see rejection in the tea leaves...
...post-earthquake cleanup operation in Armenia. Shevardnadze is also a familiar face on the evening news these days, as is Yegor Ligachev, the dour conservative who has worked at softening his brusque image since being bumped from the de facto No. 2 party slot by Gorbachev last September. Some tea-leaf readers see the increasing visibility of such officials as evidence of Gorbachev's waning clout; others see it as evidence of his strength, indicating that he feels secure enough to delegate considerable responsibility. Either way, notes a Western diplomat, "the power used to be in the hands...
...neither a demi-Cabinet member like Rosalynn Carter nor a backstage impresario like Nancy Reagan. "Mrs. Bush is so sure of herself, she has no need to prove anything," says Carlson. "She is as comfortable discussing the merits of one campaign ad over another as she is pouring tea...