Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months that followed, the bedroom became her favorite room. There she could dictate and write after a day of meetings, interruptions, official calls and callers. There before another busy day she could read over her breakfast tray and a second cup of coffee...
...line in front of Kent (Conn.) School's crew in the semifinals of the Henley Royal Regatta, Princeton's unbeaten 150-lb. eight pulled their way through the choppy waters of the Thames to beat Britain's Royal Air Force oarsmen and win the Thames Challenge Cup by an impressive length. ¶ With a red ribbon tied to his forelock to make him think he was still running under the colors of the late William Woodward Jr. and blinkers beside his eyes to keep his mind on his work, Leslie Combs's Nashua...
...Brooks Harris, captain of the 1956 tennis team, has been playing the New England tournament circuit in preparation for the forth-coming Harvard-Yale versus Oxford-Cambridge match. He will play along with Dale Junta of Harvard and Eric Moore and Ed Meyer of Yale in defense of the cup which the Americans won in an upset victory last year...
...usually phlegmatic English turned out in milling droves to see Ben Hogan play for the first time on English soil. At the Canada Cup tournament at Wentworth, the galleries jostled each other (and Hogan); some fell from trees, and one man toppled off a ladder and broke his leg. Ben Hogan responded with a wintry smile, then knocked out three birdies on his first four English holes. "An amazing genius," cried British newspapers. Teamed with Sam Snead, Hogan won the cup for the U.S. and captured the individual prize for himself with a seven-under...
...products worth more than $60 billion. Each week it removes an average of 98½ tons of contaminated food from the market−enough to feed poisonous meals to 131,000 people. It has driven from the nation's drugstore shelves such once popular devices as eye-cup-like gadgets to restore sight, has purged labels of fanciful prose; e.g., one imaginative drugmaker touted ordinary sarsaparilla as a cure for everything from "female complaints" to syphilis. Today it approves license applications for 600 new drugs a year, modifications in 4,000 to 5,000 others. It certifies every batch...