Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the 18th century, two brothers who were identical twins were sentenced to die. The King of Sweden, however, changed their sentences to life imprisonment, decreeing that one brother should drink only tea, while the other has to imbibe only coffee. This happened during the time when both beverages were considered deleterious to one's health. As it turned out, the brother who consumed tea succumbed first at 83, making coffee the preferred beverage...
Further correlation is found in the longevity rates of Scandinavians, who are inveterate coffee drinkers, as compared with the English, who are habitual tea drinkers. The average Scandinavian outlives the average Englishman...
Much of the employee life outside work is spent in company social clubs, where courses are available in flower arranging and the tea ceremony. Weddings are also conducted in the social clubs; and the company helps pay the costs, including as much as $500 to rent the traditional bridal gown...
...others have extended his theories. Psychiatrist Richard Yazmajian, for example, suggests that there are some incorrect words that exist in associative chains with the correct ones for which they are substituted, implying a kind of "dream pair" of elements in the speaker's psyche. The nun who poured tea for the Irish bishop and asked, "How many lords, my lump?" might therefore have been asking a profound theological question...
...news alarmed coffee drinkers, triggered news stories on television and in the papers, inspired a number of bad jokes during the coffee break. ("Good till the last drop.") Some people switched to tea or milk. Others felt guilty as they went on enjoying coffee as usual. But after the report was released the price of coffee on the futures market did not drop. It went up slightly. Critics of the study, including the National Coffee Association, representing a $7 billion-a-year industry, point out several drawbacks in the study. The hospitalized patients were simply asked how many cups...