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Word: cupful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...snow-covered countryside outside Putney, Vt., last week, but nobody except the contestants seemed to care. There was no grandstand at the finish line, only a dozen spectators and race officials were on hand to greet the racers, and no one offered the finishers so much as a cup of hot chocolate. In fact, one Putney resident passing by did not even know that the U.S. National Cross-Country Championship Races, the big so-called nordic skiing event of the year, were taking place almost in her backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Loneliness of The Long-Distance Skier | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

Among Skid Row drinkers and drifters, rumors and suspicion of strangers and each other run high. Augustine Cruz, 58, shakily raised his plastic coffee cup at the Union Rescue Mission and rolled his bloodshot eyes as he recalled that several of the victims used to bed down with him on the library lawn where one of the murders took place: "I want this guy bad. He's already got three of my buddies. But why kill winos? What does he want?" Some of the younger men shrug it off. "Long as he doesn't bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Skid Row Slasher | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...extra effort to get in shape, running three to four miles as well as playing tennis for up to four hours every day. He also worked full time building a new house for his wife and son in Montreal. When the season opened with a victory against the Stanley Cup Champion Flyers in Philadelphia, Vachon and the Kings felt that this might be their year. "That win gave us a lot of confidence," says Vachon. "We realized we could beat anyone." Pulford may be more realistic when he says, "I cannot tell my players they'll stay abreast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Kings | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

With glittering costumes and greased back hair the Crimson Ski Team assaulted Temple Mountain for the annual Charles Beebe Cup. The race, sometimes more reminiscent of a masquerade ball than a slalom,showed Harvard to have one of the strongest and definitely the craziest team in recent memory...

Author: By David J.states, | Title: Skiers Snatch 1st and 3rd at Beebe Cup Slalom | 1/22/1975 | See Source »

...went to all that trouble to cover up my head, editorial writers might theorize that I was covering up something else as well." Other public figures who are flaunting their hairless hairlines: Singer-Composer Isaac Hayes, Comedian Don Rickles, the Oakland Raiders' Otis Sistrunk and America's Cup Skipper Bill Picker. Unquestionably at the forefront of these notable noggins is television's Kojak, Sex Symbol Telly Savalas. Baldness, says Savalas, "takes us back to Day One and the way we looked when we first came into this world. 'Bald is beautiful' was the first comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bald Is Beautiful | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

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