Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMERICA IS DRUNK WITH sports. Every nation has some sort of sporting passion--witness European nations when their national teams play for soccer's World Cup--but the United States leads the pack in per capita time devoted to the observation and discussion of sports, especially activities in the various professional leagues. The excesses are legion. A coach in Florida bites the heads off live frogs to get his high school football team psyched up for games. A survey a few years ago revealed that about half of America's male population turned to the sports page of their newspaper...
...author, Alan Sillitoe, has the rare gift of capturing working class life in simple, unromanticized prose. It's the story of an English youth in a reform school who purposely loses a cross-country match to be honest; he thought it would be immoral to win the challenge cup merely to please a vain warden--head-master. Sillitoe combines a vivid picture of the routine of lower class life using the loneliness of cross-country running to cultivate his protagonist's spiritual development...
...night that the cup was presented, Tanner was asked why Harvard gave Oxford the cup when the match was a tie. Bobo answered with a smile, "Because we want to be invited over there next year." Bodgin's philosophy seems to have penetrated after a mere week...
Johnson, who worked at the Interlachen Country Club where Bobby Jones won the 1930 U.S. Open, was runner-up in the Western Junior last summer. The Western Junior attracts 380 of the country's leading amateurs, including Walker Cup competitor Gary Hallberg...
...linksmen all took more than their share of three putts yesterday because the soft greens had been trampled down, creating crowns around the cups. "The putts just kind of expired when they got up to the cup," Vik said, "it was like putting up a mountainside...