Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dashed to Rome to connect with an all-night flight to Kuwait, and by Friday he was surveying the bomb-shattered port town of Basra, Iraq. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart hastened back to Beirut to coordinate TIME's coverage of the war. He had been sipping tea in the royal palace at Amman, Jordan, waiting to interview King Hussein, when news of the Iraqi attack came. Stewart's audience with the King was soon postponed, another, albeit temporary, casualty of war in the gulf...
...were labeled A-l (suitable for general patronage) or A-2 (morally unobjectionable for adults); shady flicks got a B (objectionable in part for all). Thus armed, the Legion had leverage both before production and during final editing. For instance, an epilogue was added to the film version of Tea and Sympathy so the kind schoolmaster's wife (Deborah Kerr), who helped the troubled schoolboy learn about love, could allude to the guilt she felt afterward. Not till 1953 did a major studio make a profit on a movie with the scarlet letter C: that film was Otto Preminger...
...freedom after years of confinement--he can hardly wait for the next CfIA colloquium or seminar or class. His office has an eerily empty quality, immaculately clean with none of the characteristic academic bric-a-brac littering his desk. His one luxury in the spartan setting is a little tea kettle. He eagerly keeps track of world events, and asks most of his visitors if they think prominent South Korean dissident Kim Dae-Jung "will swing"--a euphemism which even seeps into his speech when he refers to himself. He takes phone calls with an effusive charm and unusual passion...
When next a pregnant woman reaches for a cup of that old pick-me-up, she should be urged to put it down. So advised the Food and Drug Administration last week. For coffee-like tea, cola drinks, chocolate and cocoa, and some drugs-contains caffeine, and, says the FDA, that substance may be linked to birth defects...
...humans eat. And the process of eating defines cultures and personalities. As the late Peter Farb and his collaborator George Armelagos indicate, "Food and drink have such intense emotional significance that they are often linked with events that have nothing to do with nutrition. The perpetrators of the Boston Tea Party were angry not over tea but over taxation; the breadline and apple-sellers of the Great Depression became symbols of what was wrong with the economy . . . the civil-rights movement . . . during the 1950s began as a dispute about the right of blacks not simply to eat at lunch counters...