Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Utilities Commission, and the result has been to enrage consumers. Residents in 21 counties have staged electrical blackouts in protest, and at least 1 million people have signed petitions calling for a statewide rollback in rates. Last week more than 1,000 demonstrators converged in Sacramento for a "California tea party" and demanded that Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. declare a state of emergency. In Loomis, a crowd gathered in a school auditorium and chanted, 'We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more...
...only is Williams, the man, an institution but so are his daily teas. While talking of Williams, every person mentioned his afternoon teas, where any topic of conversation is brought up. Drinking tea and eating cookies, Williams and his students, colleagues, and frequent special guests talk about people's special projects, politics, his trip up the Amazon, silk in Japan, or any miscellaneous topic that comes to mind. Even Williams' own work is analyzed by his visitors at tea and everyone says he takes the criticism very well...
Then the neighbors, who had gathered outside, became quite concerned about my mental health, offering me tea as I told them what a stupid fool I really am. A decade passed before a cop arrived to fill out forms and bestow a traffic citation and a bill for the tow truck. He drove me back to the house, asking me how long I'd be in town and what I was doing that night. "Feeling guilty," I answered miserably...
...After tea, the bugle sounded under the Rebellion Tree [an elm in front of Hollis], when 41 out of 70 bound themselves by an oath that they would not return to order till the four expelled members were recalled and Woodbury sent from the College." They also pledged that if Woodbury appeared next morning in chapel, they would not only remove him, but they would "thrash him severely...
Kennedy and Nixon were by no means the only Presidents to preserve conversations. Lyndon Johnson could reach under a table in the Cabinet Room and throw a switch among the buttons marked COFFEE, TEA and FRESCA to turn his recorders on and off. So far, only a few transcripts have been made public. Harry Truman is known to have made about ten recordings, and it was revealed only last month that Franklin D. Roosevelt used a mike in his office desk lamp to record at least 14 press conferences and a few other conversations. Eisenhower is known to have taped...