Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bleatniks are a strange and varied lot. Seen in San Francisco, in the vicinity ot Union Square: a blind beggar with Seeing-Eye dog, with extended hand holding tin cup, and with his transistor radio "bleating" away. Could he have been begging for new batteries...
...kind of woman trouble that Boccaccio wrote about constantly besets the heroes of Chinese novels, and Mah's are both traditional and up to date; they are caused by the government's Cup of Water movement. To increase the population, it has been decreed that women are like fountains: if anyone is thirsty, he drinks from the nearest one. Mah is peacefully attending to his duties as the custodian of a temple to Mao (formerly a temple to Confucius) when his room is invaded by a Female Old Tree Trunk (party member of long standing) who is pregnant...
...combat the cocktail hour, the WCTU is propagandizing for the "hour of social freedom," at which men and women may relax over beverages such as Top o' the Mornin' Punch (5 cups pineapple juice, 1 cup lemon juice, 3 cups water, 1 qt. ginger ale and 3 pts. lime sherbet), or the Pick-Me-Up (6 tbs. of chocolate syrup, 2 eggs. 2 cups fresh milk, serve in a frosted glass...
...18th green at Chicago's Olympia Fields Country Club, in the uncertain twilight, Carl Jerome Barber squinted cautiously down the shaft of his putter at the ball. A long 60 ft. stretched between him and the cup, and Dallas Pro Don January, 31, would take the P.G.A. first money if Barber missed. Barber didn't miss. He sank his putt and a tie was his. In the play-off next day, holing long putts with fresh assurance. Jerry Barber finished one stroke ahead of January to become, at 45, the oldest and smallest golfer ever...
...locale the mind of a child. In its cast are teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists of this mad litany, set to a foxtrot tempo...