Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Australia: the Davis Cup, for the eleventh time in the last 13 years, by trimming Mexico, 5-0, on Brisbane's Milton Courts. Lefthanders Rod Laver and Neale Fraser each won two singles matches; Laver teamed with Roy Emerson to defeat Mexico's Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox in a straight-sets doubles match that lasted only 70 min. At the closing ceremony, Mexican Captain Pancho Contreras wistfully fondled the Davis Cup, announced that his team would be back to try again. Yelled one Down Under fan, bored with yet another victory: "I hope you bloody well...
India's monsoon rains drummed down on the makeshift rope-and-bamboo stadium in Madras, and Mexico's Davis Cup team wondered if they were there for tennis or water polo. "We will lose our edge," fretted Coach Pancho Contreras as the first day's matches were postponed. The wonder was that the Mexicans had any edge left at all. In a comedy of errors-or possibly gamesmanship-the Latin Americans spent the better part of a week bumping around India while their hosts acted as if they weren't even there...
...Forehand. The matches squared matters nicely-and established Mexico as a stylish new power in what is now a generally lackluster sport. Mexico's No. 1, Rafael Osuna, 24, who perfected his tennis as a student at Southern Cal, had proved himself a one-man gang in earlier cup matches, trimming the U.S.'s Jon Douglas in a close match and beating both Sweden's Ulf Schmidt and Jan Erik Lundquist...
Sarah Caldwell's direction of the excellent orchestra seemed a bit lethargic, and on the whole, this Butterfly offered for Puccini's heady brew a rather weak cup...
...would come to see him and be met with a monologue: "I know what you want. You know I know what you want. You want a school, right? The answer is no. The interview is over." With that, he would barge out of the office, cool off over a cup...