Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Budge and clearly established him as America's-and perhaps the world's-best tennis amateur. McKinley followed up Wimbledon with a slamming defense of his national clay courts championship, an off-form loss to Mexico's Rafael Osuna in the American Zone semifinal Davis Cup matches, and a quick comeback win over Osuna's partner, Antonio Palafox...
...good, he is very, very good. When he is bad, he pouts, curses, hurls rackets and tortures himself with despair. On top of his form, this year he has won the national indoor singles and doubles, the national intercollegiate singles and doubles, and his share of the Davis Cup matches against Mexico. At his worst, he has misbehaved badly enough to get a four-month suspension from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, and blew his chances at Wimbledon in July by booting away an early match...
...protect referees and players from the fans, many foreign teams maintain wide moats around their fields, but with smaller crowds to cope with, Cox just had a strong fence erected at the stadium for last week's Challenge Cup game. Contestants: West Ham, the British team that won the 1963 I.S.L. championship, and Dukla, a top Czech team. Dukla took the two-game series, 1-0 and 1-1. The margin of victory was a late goal booted in the second game by Left Halfback Josef Masopust, whom European newsmen voted Europe's "player of the year...
...often tell my students to make the best cup in the world," he says. "They struggle with it, and all at once that cup becomes everything." He explains the bigness of his work by calling it little. "When I'm out in the trees and flowers, it all looks so immense," Voulkos broods. "The sky is big and the trees are big. What I do suddenly seems terribly small. Maybe that's why I like to work in little rooms at midnight...
...crop should make prices go up. But under the new quotas drawn up by the 48-nation International Coffee Council, Brazil can export no more than 18 million sacks a year, and has so much coffee in its big backlog that there is no reason why a cup of coffee should cost more...