Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountains go, Austria's Patscherkofel is not likely to win any beauty contests. A short (7,373 ft.), stumpy cone, it looks for all the world like an inverted Dixie cup. But the Patscherkofel makes up in ruggedness what it lacks in looks. At last week's ninth Winter Olympics, its rocky crags and fir-covered slopes were the site of the men's downhill, the fastest and toughest course ever to test the mettle of the world's finest skiers...
...Sculpture is the most absorbing thing I've ever done. I'll never forget the day my assistant looked up and said, 'What about a cup of coffee?' I said, 'What about lunch instead?' 'What lunch?' he said. 'It's 6 o'clock.' Anyone can see that in the last four or five years I was quieting down, getting richer and quieter in my work: this was sculpture beginning to tap me on the shoulder...
...than Monro's letter, a few CRIMSON clips, and Dr. Graham B. Blaine's celebrated virginity statistic, O'Reilly makes a brief reference to the rare "frisky Radcliffe co-ed who was invited to a tea party in the Harvard dormitories and actually was served a cup of tea," and then gives a lengthy history of the "Holiday Club...
Australians have won the Davis Cup so regularly (eleven out of the last 13 years) that nobody else remembers whether the silver monstrosity holds one magnum of champagne or two. The U.S. had not reached the Challenge Round since 1959, and the last time it won was in 1958-when Peruvian Alex Olmedo took the Pledge of Allegiance with his fingers crossed. But last week an American team finally took the cup home...
...bounded back to win the second, 6-2. Again the Texan faltered; again he rallied-from a 0-3 deficit to a 9-7 victory. Then, leaning into his serve, McKinley blasted the young Aussie right off the court, 6-2-and the delirious Americans tenderly packed the Davis Cup for its long voyage...