Word: cupfuls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...successfully acting as host to the 1994 World Cup last July, the U. S. proved it could embrace soccer, at least on a temporary basis. In Uruguay this July for the 1995 Copa America, the U.S. proved it could actually play the sport...
...Thursday night in Maldonado, but the team played well enough to put a scare into the Brazilians, who had never lost to the North Americans and in fact had not given up a goal to them in 65 years. As Carlos Alberto Parreira, who coached Brazil to its World Cup victory last year, says, "The U.S. is not the dead chicken that everyone used to think...
Last year in the World Cup, the U.S. also lost to the Brazilians 1-0, using many of the same players. But under then coach Bora Milutinovic, the Americans were simply trying to avoid embarrassment, playing defensive soccer even when they had a one-man advantage. In April, Milutinovic was relieved of his duties by the U.S. Soccer Federation, leaving the team in the hands of assistant coach Steve Sampson until a high-profile coach with international experience could be found. Among those who were approached with a $300,000 salary offer was Parreira, but he turned it down...
...glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea- cup opens A lane to the land of the dead...
...choice has been acclaimed by Travel and Leisure magazine as "the best cup of coffee in the country," and the coffee has already been the subject of "great comments from the customers," said Amy T. Moore, a public relations representative...