Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...button refused to respond. I couldn't get my E-mail. When my computer doesn't work, I engage in a few modern rituals. I turn it off, then on again -- the equivalent of throwing a cup of cold water in its face. Or I try starting it while holding down the shift key; that secret handshake tells my computer to load only its most essential programs. Then, I add the one I need, hoping it won't crash my system. I've found that rapping my machine smartly on its side never cures the problem. It does, however, precipitate...
...transformed the way the game was played. Off the field, he could scarf down 18-egg omelets, chug-a-lug boilermakers (ice cubes and all) and, it has been claimed, make love seven times a night. A beloved boor, he also liked to show off a silver loving cup he won for placing first in a flatulence contest. Yet the Babe, product of a Baltimore reform school, came up short in one area. "My grandfather," says Ruth descendant Thomas Stevens, "always regretted that he didn't have the benefit of an education...
...lightweights finished second in the Jope Cup with 31 points, while the heavyweights tied with North-eastern for fourth with 26 points. Princeton took both Cups, which are presented to the school whose light-and heavyweight crews perform the best in the freshmen, junior varsity and varsity races...
...most dominating performances in the history of the America's Cup regatta, Team New Zealand's Black Magic I won the fifth straight of five races off the shores of San Diego and took home the world's premier sailing trophy. --By Melissa August, Christine Gorman, Belinda Luscombe, Michael Quinn, Alain Sanders and Sidney Urquhart
Earlier this spring, the Disciples travelled to Yale to compete in the Yale Cup. Harvard placed third in this event as well--behind both Yale and Vassar...