Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight-ounce jar. Television is Brimming with commercials. In one, a wife rations out her husband's coffee to spare him the effects of caffeine. He moans: "They can send a man to the moon, they can send rockets to Mars-why can't they make a cup of coffee I like without caffeine...
Kathy Angell commanding a Radcliffe boat for the first time, and veteran skippe; Barb Grant won eight out of eight races to give the team the Boston University President's Cup. The two 'Cliffe boats outdistanced opponents from MIT, BU and Jackson College...
...unexpected scores on the college circuit. But what of the pros, those supposedly steady, seasoned old veterans? In the National Hockey League, for instance, the venerable Montreal Canadiens are battling for the Eastern Division lead with the likes of the Detroit Red Wings (who have not won the Stanley Cup in 18 years) and a gang of young upstarts called the Buffalo Sabres. The Boston Bruins? Last year's Stanley Cup winners, weakened by defections to the fledgling World Hockey Association, are languishing in a tie for fifth place. In pro basketball the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers have...
...times, it looked more like street rioting than Davis Cup tennis. Indeed, the cup finals, won by the U.S. last week on the rust-red clay courts of Bucharest, seldom even resembled the mannerly game perfected in 1873 by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield as a diversion for English society...
...previously won the cup four years in a row. But this year few experts gave Captain Dennis Ralston's charges much of a chance of defeating the wily and temperamental Rumanians, Ilie Nastase and Ion Tiriac, on their home grounds. In the face of rowdy fans and the worst officiating this side of Olympic boxing, only a superlative performance by Army Specialist Fourth Class Stan Smith, 25-who won both his singles matches and teamed with Erik van Dillen, 21, to take the doubles-enabled the U.S. team to eke out a 3-2 victory. Said a disgusted Captain...