Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drink variously known as "pizen," "popskull" and "panther milk." The recipe: "To a five-gallon keg of Taos Lightning [whiskey] add a one-pound plug of chopped chewing tobacco, two pounds of burnt dried peaches and 20 charges of gunpowder; stir the mixture well and drink in a tin cup...
...lightweights, one of the strongest boats on the Charles last spring, not only captured the Goldthwaite Cup, emblematic of Big Three supremacy, but also won the Wright cup on the Charles over eight other boats, crushing Princeton with a bruising last-minute sprint...
...36th, Louise's tee shot faded into the rough and her father was half afraid to look. Calmly she selected a club, wiggled once and sent a tremendous wood shot to the green. Then she curved a putt around a partial stymie and the ball dropped into the cup. That gave her the match and the title which Babe Didrikson Zaharias vacated to become a pro. Proud Johnny Suggs dashed onto the green and gave husky Louise a big kiss. She had played it like a big-leaguer...
...Washington, Marilyn Krug, 20-year-old daughter of the Secretary of the Interior, enjoyed one of those girlish honors that are tailor-made for looking back on later. At a ball she was crowned Queen of the President's Cup Regatta (speedboat whoop-te-do) by the very careful Secretary of Agriculture...
...Orleans, Publisher Ralph Nicholson of the Item deleted the name of Detective Dick Tracy's current villain "Coffyhead" from every strip, making gibberish out of some of the speeches and captions. ("Coffyhead" is a no-good who earned his nickname by always brewing his evil deeds over a cup of coffee.) Publisher Nicholson explained that he considered the name "a nasty and unfair reflection on a fine beverage...