Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been mobilized for the front. The Daura oil refinery on the outskirts of Baghdad, a potential target of Iranian fighters, has been closed down as a safety precaution. Along the palm-lined avenues, men sit in cafés and restaurants much of the day, sipping tea and exchanging the latest rumors about the war. Although gasoline is scarce, there appear to be no other shortages. Says the wife of a foreign businessman: "I go to the market now and find more of everything. I guess the government must have saved up food and released it when the fighting...
...with melodrama. Rather than concentrating their fire on these caricatured villains, the writers might have more thoroughly examined the subtler exploitation that Merrick suffers under Treves' care. The doctor worries that the hospital has replaced the carnival as Merrick's freak show, that the Victorian socialites come to have tea with the Elephant Man only to stare at him and "to impress their friends." He begins to question his own motives in taking care of Merrick, wondering if he sought only recognition and not social justice. It's an intriguing idea that's just left hanging with no further development...
...gave new meaning to the phrase "no-frills flying." Jaromir Wagner, a 41-year-old West German car dealer, risked his life on a twelve-day, seven-stop journey from his homeland to the U.S.-without heat, seat, coffee, tea or milk. For the sake of what he called "the thrill" and at a cost of $325,000, Wagner made the trip strapped between the wings of a small, twin-engine plane, where he endured temperatures as low as 22° below zero. "I felt as though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact...
...development. Putting the blame for Britain's problems on government spending alone is cloud-cuckoo emotionalism and bad economics. It wins elections but doesn't run countries. According to Mr. Frost, only Mrs. Thatcher's strong stands on such questions as immigration and law and order--the sort of tea-and-cake, go-for-the-heart issues that woo British working-class voters the way the Moral Majority courts U.S. workers--have kept her from slipping too much in British public-opinion polls...
Boston may be 350 years old, but it celebrates its birthday like a little kid. No Tea Party, it was ice cream and cake for 12,000 who gathered in Boston Common for the conclusion of the city's five-month Jubilee 350 celebration. Naturally the goodies were scaled to suit the town's venerability: a 2,000-lb. creamy fudge sundae and a 14-ft. by 6-ft. field of butter-creamed pound cake adorned with a 5-ft. marzipan replica of historic Faneuil Hall. The cake, a six-month construction project for Entenmann's Bakery...