Word: tease
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These so-called functional beverages, or "nutraceutical" drinks, represent a tiny slice of the $20 billion U.S. beverage market--but the one that's growing fastest. Sales are expected to reach $100 million this year, up from just $20 million in 1997. Most of the products are teas and juices...
--Don't assume that "natural" means safe, unless you want to risk ending up like Socrates, who committed suicide by drinking hemlock. More recently, folks have suffered liver damage from sipping teas brewed from comfrey, an herb that is used in poultices and ointments to treat sprains and bruises and...
Known for their weekly teas and strong sense of House spirit, the Bosserts said they never expected what was intended to be a one-year appointment to turn into a 23-year tenure at Lowell's helm.
"Our intention is to maintain that tradition [of weekly teas] in one form or another," Eck said. "We believe tradition is the way to create community."
In fact gentility seemed to be the watchword ofour four years. We had regular teas to which wewore black dresses, white gloves, and little blackhats. Each one of us was required to pour. Since Icame from a background where tea was dispensedeither from a tea pot or a tea kettle...