Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smashing serves with unladylike power, skirmishing boldly at the net, fighting off the cramps of fatigue and responding to mounting pressure by simply getting tougher. When the battle was over at Wimbledon last week, the British girls had outlasted the Americans, 4-3, and won the Wightman Cup, but not before players on both teams had produced a caliber of tennis that was unmatched in years for sustained drama...
...final day, with the U.S. leading 3-2, the cup appeared won when U.S. Team Captain Janet Hopps took the first set 8-6 from Angela Mortimer, led 4-2 in the second set. But the British girl pulled hersen together just as the American was racked with an attack of cramps. Angela ran off nine games in a row to win 6-8, 6-4, 6-1, tie the score at 3-3, and put the cup up to a final match of doubles between Janet Hopps and Dorothy Head Knode for the U.S. and Christine Truman and Shirley...
...Americans won the first three games, only to have the British rally again to take the lead. Five times the Americans fought off match point. It was well past 8 p.m. when the final shot gave the British the set, 9-7, the match and the Wightman Cup, a rose-filled gewgaw that had been tethered by a rope on a windswept sideline during the two days of struggle...
Haul No. 1 caught two oldsters who used a new Moskvich sedan to make the rounds of Moscow churches. One of them would dress in rags and rattle a tin cup at the church door while the other whipped out of the car's luggage compartment an assortment of crucifixes, icons, tracts and lamps and did a brisk business at a fat profit until the counterfeit beggar tipped him off that the cops were coming. One day the agents of the Department for Fighting Theft and Speculation seized...
...tactics that have since become standard; of lung cancer; in Victoria, B.C. In 1928, as a 44-year-old coach, Patrick provided one of hockey's most memorable moments when he replaced an injured goalie, worked the nets for the first time in his life, saved a Stanley Cup play-off game for the New York Rangers...