Word: teas
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...manner, not her ability to channel country-girl paradigms by dressing in pink on rare occasions. Clinton cannot alienate already wary voters—including many suburban women—with comments like 1992’s jab at mothers who make “cookies and tea.” But the fear of losing support from those women should not make Clinton run from her “First Lady Macbeth” image, crystallized by the New York Times’ Michael Kelly and Maureen Dowd at Mr. Clinton’s first inauguration, in this election...
NAIROBI, Kenya—It is my third visit in as many summers to sub-Saharan Africa. I now realize being even slightly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed was foolish. My first day here, waking to the dawn, having a quick tea, sharpening pencils, readying my digital camera, powering up my laptop—doing all those things one must do in readiness for an archive filled with glorious, old, virginal glimpses from the past— I was in the groove for historical research.My excitement lasted until around 8:45 a.m., when some wrangling in Swahili with the archives?...
...Finally entering Tyre was like entering a ghost town. There was no obvious damage, but there were almost no people. As we got deeper into town, near our hotel, more people appeared: young men sitting on plastic chairs watching the traffic and drinking tea. Our hotel is in a Christian area of town and considered safe from Israeli bombs. The young men are there to make sure no Hizballah fighters come in and bring the Jewish state's wrath down...
Aesih Irawan was drinking iced tea at a friend's house near the beach in Pangandaran, a resort town on the Indonesian island of Java, when the ocean crashed through the living room. The 27-year-old housewife was seized by the churning water and carried hundreds of meters down the beach before she became tangled in cable, which prevented her being swept out to sea. Irawan survived, but almost 700 people were killed, nearly 1,000 injured and some 20,000 families left homeless by the July 17 tsunami that hit a 177-km stretch of Java. Triggered...
...mode of transport. Here in Calcutta, I have heard from many of my friends in Bombay about the “indomitable spirit” of their city, a phrase that has been used extensively by the television news channels reporting from Bombay. There were reports of people serving tea, bread, and daal to survivors and friends at train stations, free rides home were offered and gratefully accepted, beds for lost travelers and survivors were provided by slum-dwellers, and people rushed to hospitals to donate blood, as blood types became more important than caste or religion in India?...