Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Experts in Bonn and London tend to share that gloomy view, but still feel that the Soviets would move only as a last resort. Says one senior British diplomat: "If they send in the Red Army, they will have created a nightmare that will make Afghanistan look like a tea party." The Soviets still have 55 divisions poised within striking distance of Poland. While there is no sign that they have stepped up their state of readiness, the upcoming Warsaw Pact winter maneuvers could serve as a cover for a Soviet move. There seems little chance of intervention, however, before...
Afternoon tea was on the house; its bite-size sandwiches were the day's main meal for many strivers. There were musical evenings, a swimming pool and a gym, a library and-not least-two lounges where girls and boys could play Glenn Miller records or backgammon, or subtler games of eye and inflection. Until Mae Sibley arrived at the stroke of 10 p.m. and announced that it was time for the gentlemen to withdraw. Good night, Miss Sibley. Good night, Barbizon...
Student life in the Soviet Union bears little resemblance to that in America. Because the students receive a stipend that pays for food and school materials and little more, the Soviet student spends more time walking in the parks, visiting friends, and sipping tea than going to bars, restaurants, concerts or the theater. On weekends, partying gets serious with straight vodka the most popular beverage. Sexually, the Soviet student is surprisingly puritan. Because birth control is not available--abortion is the most common kind of contraception--most Soviet students taking part in higher education refrain entirely from sexual activity. Although...
...share her views, grouse about her overlong lectures and lack of humor. She does display a thoughtfulness about personal situations and an unaffected directness in talking with "little people." On the same day that she has purposely discomfited a minister, she will stop and have a cup of tea with the Downing Street switchboard operators. At a recent Tory conference, a 15-year-old lad made a speech that was a great success. When he was brought to meet the Prime Minister, she first asked if he had called his mother to tell her how the speech went. When...
...explains: "If they gave us tea half an hour early, we would joke and say, 'Hey, that's a good sign. Maybe we're going home.' " In November they learned that Ronald Reagan had been elected President and started hoping that the comment by a guard named Ahmed ("There's a new era now") meant they would soon be free. When Christmas passed, says Jones, "we figured that we would be released some time after the Inauguration, and we were...