Word: cup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colorful institutions. On Hester and Thompson Streets, Belmont Avenue and Prospect Place the cries of hawkers competed with the horns of frustrated motorists, tomatoes and fishtails decorated the curbs, and the hand-scale reign undisputed. In the hot days of July ices-and-syrup went at a nickel a cup to kids tossing a Spaulding above heads too busy to notice them, and in December the chestnut men huddled in doorways while their cookers sent up thin jets of steam into the frenzied...
...crew won three races out of the five it entered last year. It placed second in the Eastern Massachusetts Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regatta, competing against nine other shells. The crew also came in second in the Goldthwaite Cup Race. Princeton won both of these contests...
...other tries to poison her, and fails. Both, spilling lines at each other terribly quickly, hurl insults and acid pessimism and gloom--"I am the dung heap on which I grow"--at one another until finally, one of them poisons herself, having commanded the other to offer her the cup. Why such consciously doomed insects didn't commit suicide long ago is never clear...
...with such fierce abandon that he committed 20 double faults. But he also scored 15 service aces to Anderson's five, and he pushed the powerful Aussie cowpoke to five sets before he lost, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 7-9, 6-3. After that, the cup slid swiftly out of reach. Cooper pinned Seixas to the base line and whipped the U.S. veteran in a match that went the unimpressively full five sets. Next day, in the doubles, Hopman took Mervyn Rose, 27, out of the Davis Cup doghouse, where he has lingered ever since losing...
...eight, and with only pride at stake, the U.S. tennists went back on the courts for the final singles matches, and fought hard to save themselves from an embarrassing shutout. Seixas outlasted Anderson, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 0-6, 13-11, and MacKay, no longer bothered by cup competition jitters, beat back Cooper, 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Said happy Harry Hopman: "You may consider my grip on the Davis Cup slippery." Somehow he managed to say it with a straight face...