Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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April snow showers, coating nearly every ballfield in New England, three times delayed the 115th Harvard baseball opener. When the Crimson nine finally took their places at Soldiers, held Wednesday afternoon, the sun was shining, the field was dry, but a strong wind blew across the open a tea Only the dedicated braved their way to the doubleheader: with Northeastern, and by the start of the second game, fewer than 20 fans--most of whom were other Harvard students--sat in the rather modest first baseline stands...
Inside the spa building, in a small windowless room, an uptight, burned-out, more-fat-than-fit East Coast Type A female is submitting to an herbal wrap. A cup of alfalfa-mint tea precedes mummification. She sweats to the faint chimes of "music to relax and meditate by." The East Coast Type A resents being told to relax. The ranch's resident psychotherapist, Richard ("Bud") Murphy, will later tell her, "Many people come here seeking withdrawal from something-food, a bad marriage, personal problems, smoking-but they feel ambivalent and resist change...
Democrat Henry Jackson of Washington, a man who wanted to be President, sipped tea in a deserted corner of the Senate dining room one evening last week. A busy day was ebbing for "Scoop," co-sponsor with Virginia's John Warner of a new proposal for a freeze and reduction of nuclear weapons. A Rumanian delegation was waiting nervously outside to shake his hand. Aides scurried in and out, whispering to the Senator about committee votes on whether to authorize new nuclear aircraft carriers...
...line, first for the food and then for the cashier to add up the bill on an abacus (she used the cash register only as a cash box). The breakfast offerings included greasy fried eggs, cold beets, herring with onions, porridge, sausage, lukewarm condensed milk, and hot ultra-sweetened tea...
...sidewalks along the city's larger streets are lined with small roadside enterprises. Vendors display fruits, vegetables, small paperback booklets and trinkets. Old women and men sell popsicles and tea to pedestrians. Three young women stand in an outdoor restaurant, preparing fried bread and dumplings. The restaurant, like all other privately owned enterprises is relatively new: it has not been long since the Chinese government prohibited all private businesses. Now, however, private enterprises are encouraged. These small businesses are viewed as a source of employment for the millions of Chinese who are unemployed while waiting for the government to "distribute...