Word: cupful
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...people of the state and any body politically seeking to usurp such power." In invoking the doctrine of "interposition," which has been held unconstitutional, Barnett declaimed that "there is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration," promised that "we will not drink from the cup of genocide" by submitting to "the tyranny of judicial oppression." For his part, he was willing to go to jail rather than accept Black's order. Furthermore, he advised "any official who is not prepared to suffer imprisonment for this righteous cause" to resign...
Knocking Knees. A star of Australia's Davis Cup team for two years, Laver had never before managed to put two of the four top titles together. But this season he has been all but unbeatable. He won the Italian, Netherlands, Norwegian and Swiss championships, commenced his pursuit of the slam with victories over Emerson in Australia and France. In July he won at Wimbledon with such astonishing ferocity that Martin Mulligan, another countryman whom he dispatched in barely 53 minutes, gasped: "I must have offended him." By the time he got to Forest Hills, says Laver...
...other amateur champion who turned pro. I think I was the last guy who turned pro and won right away." At Forest Hills the word was that tennis buffs would get their answer this winter, that Laver would sign with the pros right after Australia's 1962 Davis Cup defense. But Rocket Rod himself was toying with the idea of remaining an amateur for at least one more year...
...courage is celebrated, having been much publicized in the days when he would sit in the cockpit of his big speedboat, the Tempo VI, in which he won the Gold Cup, national speedboat racing's highest prize, in 1946. In the 1948 race he was thrown 15 feet, broke...
...time for this weekend's starting gun approached, the word in Newport was "Weatherly in four" in the best-of-seven competition for the America's Cup. Weatherly was ready. Well tuned by the trial races that made her the U.S. defender, she lay in the ways at Newport Shipyard undergoing final polishing, then was set in the water for minor ballast shifts. At week's end her crew arrived to pace out the dwindling days before the meeting with the Australian challenger Gretel. By contrast, the Australian 12-meter lay inert under the hurried tread...