Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third consecutive year the varsity lightweight crew went in late June to Henley-on-Thames, England, and returned with the Thames Cup, and undisputed symbol of supremacy in Anglo-American rowing...
Only once before in the 92 year history of the event has an eight captured the Cup for three years running. That was the Thames Rowing Club...
...conquering the Detroit boat, the varsity listed its thirty-first consecutive win and conquest of the 89 other crews entered in Thames Cup competition...
...perhaps easy to make too much of it, to find its anarchic flings an assay of an ill-governed world, its rancid taste an assault on respectability. Less than a philosopher and more than a buffoon, Behan is chiefly an insatiable human being. He is no one's cup of tea who recoils from finding it sloshed into a saucer, no one's humorist who, for being outraged, can't be amused. If his people often have the rackety mirth of Burns's Jolly Beggars, and the cynical morality...
...executives had all but foundered an aquatic show she had done for NBC earlier in the summer. It didn't even matter to her that the show had won one of the highest ratings of the summer: its mediocrity pained her. To Critic John Crosby, this was his cup of chlorine, and last week he took over where Critic Williams had left off. In his New York Herald Tribune column, he expanded the argument into a general indictment of recent NBC network policy under President Robert Kintner and Board Chairman Robert Sarnoff...