Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Antipodal Acquisitor. In 1983, in the midst of his glory days, Alan Bond's sloop Australia II captured the America's Cup. In the same determined manner, Bond, 51, has run up more than $3 billion of debt in recent years while capturing a global empire of properties ranging from half of Chile's telephone system to Wisconsin-based G. Heileman Brewing. To lighten his crushing debt load, Bond is now shedding properties almost as fast as he acquired them...
...awards were announced Tuesday, with Princeton, running back Judd Garrett winning the Asa S. Bushnell Cup as Player of the Year, and Cornell running back John McNiff earning Ivy League Sophomore of the Year honors. Unanimous selections for the first team were guard Mike Davis, Garrett, defensive tackle Steve Hillegeist, linebacker Franco Pagnanelli and cornerback Frank Leal of Princeton, running back Bryan Keys of Penn, linebacker Mitch Lee of Cornell and safety Rich Huff of Yale...
...design, construction and testing of Australia II, the 12-meter sloop with the controversial winged keel that swept to victory over the U.S. defender off Newport in 1983, leaving, for the first time in yachting history, an empty plinth in the New York Yacht Club where the America's Cup used to stand...
...Harvard men's and women's cross country teams had a tough afternoon running in the rain and mud at HYP's in Princeton, N.J., yesterday. Yale captured both the Main Memorial Trophy with a victory in the men's race and the Cheever Memorial Cup for a women's triumph...
...looked up at the scoreboard; Harvard was down by two touchdowns with less than two minutes to go. Hopes of a Harvard victory over Holy Cross had been dashed. As the clouds thickened over the Stadium, people began to file out. I took one last big gulp from my cup of Coca-Cola and prepared to leave. But as I stood up, something made me look down toward the sideline again...