The contents of the cup were poured into the tea bowl and offered up for me to smell.
But too much will be read into the tea leaves of Obama's victory.
They're not just angry, they are organizing in a new way into the Tea Party, a movement that confusingly, has nothing to do with tea and isn't a party either.
While the apocalyptic view that we face an imminent inflationary depression may be reading too much into the tea leaves, relying on bad data is like flying blind in a storm.
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And opposition to software patents fits naturally into the broader Tea Party policy agenda.
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Celestial Seasonings (part of Hain Celestial) and even Lipton (part of Unilever) are elbowing their way into the deluxe tea business.
Yes, I know that Boehner has himself to blame for the role he played in opening the doors of Congress to the unyielding and unreasonable Members swept into office by the Tea Party rebellion in 2010.
Today, the IRS official at the heart of the investigation into the targeting of Tea Party groups appeared before a House Committee and took the Fifth.
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His message is resonating not just in New Jersey, but across the country, tapping into the same frustration that created the tea-party movement.
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At the meeting were a few young actual or aspiring local politicians who made short speeches pledging to take the Tea Party message into the next election.
It's kind of the grassroots energy that the Tea Party has tapped into and that the RNC has desperately tried to get a hold of.
Mr. Nixon took his tea into the living room, where the dog lay by the fire.
When Rafik brought afternoon tea into the living room, K.K. could hear the typewriter clacking in the background.
Then they went to work injecting the razzle-dazzle they had picked up in the retail business into their tea-packing venture.
The Pavilion bar serves afternoon tea, then segues into tropical cocktails as the evening settles in, the stars light up, and a steel-drum band takes the stage.
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She gently coaxed Diane into coming into the house for a cup of tea while her husband rang Joanne and the police.
Four of the peas remained in their pod, while others were strewn around the bowl, which had a pea mousse on the bottom, with mint tips wedged into it and a scoop of frozen mint tea on the side.
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In the Ming dynasty (1368 to 1644), Huizhou merchants began to make a name for themselves for their trading prowess, dealing first in locally produced timber and tea and then expanding into the lucrative salt trade.
Well fortified, detour back toward the airport for the fascinating tour (1400 local time, Sunday to Thursday) of the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital where birds of prey are nursed lovingly back to health and whose tour ends with an opportunity to hold a rehabilitated falcon, then head back into town to take high tea at the opulent Emirates Palace Hotel.
Ms Lovell weaves this story into the historical brocade of the early 19th century, when European demand for Chinese silk, tea and porcelain was insatiable.
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As for Obama being unpopular, the Republicans mistakenly believe that the loud, passionate minority of haters, birthers, and factional zealots like the tea party will convert magically into an electoral majority.
At least that is the story that Jon Krakauer is telling about Greg Mortenson, whose books about building schools in the remote bits of Pakistan and Afghanistan (Three Cups of Tea, Stones into Schools) have squatted atop, or near atop, the bestseller lists for nearly five years.
She measured tea into a strainer, plugged in the kettle, and opened the refrigerator.
But in 1999, just a year after TEA-21 went into effect, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) began preparing for their next offensive.
The bus company owned the park until the 1970s which included a wooden tea house, band stand and kiosks before the county council turned it into a country park and which includes a popular cafe.
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The tour starts in Plaza Congreso where Jed gives tour participants an overview of local history, shares insights into the surrounding architecture and teaches the group how to formally prepare, serve and drink mate, traditional Argentinean tea.
The tea was poured, after resting, into a small pitcher, and later poured into a cup, which she rested carefully on a towel.
She put great effort into the smallest details, from the pitcher of mint-infused water to the homemade date-and-ginger tea served at the end of the meal.
And all of a sudden, the levees start collapsing and all of the water just backs into the city and fills it up like a cup of tea.
But the tea-partiers seem to have got it into their heads that the treaty is a bad one, and Republicans are stalling.
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