Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again any time . . . The American players ... are a bunch of dollar-imperialist puppets, reactionaries and betting braggarts." Shamefaced Hungarian players, who did not share the fire-eating Communist's opinions, privately apologized to the U.S. team. After the Hungarian team won the Swaythling Cup, even Gyoergy grudgingly relented: "It's a pity I said all this. It chips off some of the glory of the Magyar victory...
...King alone drinks champagne, and a flunky keeps his cup filled all day. When the spirit moves him, his majesty throws largess in the form of coconuts; Louis has stocked more than 2,000 of them. Waiting for him on a reviewing stand in front of the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home stands the Zulus' Queen (this year, attractive, brown-skinned Bernice Oxley, ticket taker at the Ace Theater). In a room where the caskets have been pushed back to the wall, she receives her lord's champagne toast. After the parade the long night of jazz-filled...
...spring schedule lists the first race on April 23 with MIT, Princeton, and Rutgers for the Compton Cup. Later races will be held with Navy, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Cornell, and finally Yale...
...scrappy, finally seasoned outfit, they fought on in France. When the war ended they collected $400 for a solid-silver loving cup, which they admiringly presented to Harry Truman. Most of them went back to Kansas City and the country's Main Streets, finally to become middle-aged heroes of the best-known battery in the A.E.F. Tommy Murphy started raising a family of seven children and ended up as a paint salesman...
...refugee-swollen Shanghai a child collapsed on the steps of a building, too exhausted to unstrap the baby she carried on her back. As she slept, clutching a beggar's cup in her hand, the picture she made was a picture of Nationalist China itself. Last week the bad news that poured into Chiang Kai-shek's tottering capital would have exhausted even the strongest...