Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which you report a lacrosse game in Baltimore "that settled the white man's 1947 championship" [TIME, June 16] will, I am sure, amaze the members of the hundreds of Canadian teams now playing their scheduled league games leading up to the east-west playoffs for the Mann Cup, emblematic of the Canadian Lacrosse Championship...
...Apparently you have never heard of St. Catherine's, home of the perennial winners of the Mann Cup, emblematic of world lacrosse supremacy. St. Kitt's "Athletics" are world lacrosse champions in the same sense as the St. Louis "Cardinals" are champions in the baseball world...
...death camp of Jasenovac, Professor Premeru said he saw four quisling executioners, Kojic, Matijevic, Pudic and Gasparic, drinking the blood spouting out of their victims' gashes and licking their blood-stained poniards. Another quisling, Majstrorovic-Filipovic, the inventor of the "cup-and-ball game," caught with his poniard live babies which soldiers threw...
...Henley-on-Thames, the crew of Jesus College, Cambridge, won the big event-the Grand Challenge Cup-in which no U.S. crew was entered. Another race, for the Thames Challenge Cup, went to a U.S. schoolboy crew from Connecticut's Kent School. Kent's brawny crew (average weight: 174 Ibs.), which brought along its own supply of peanut butter and cooking fats, won easily by two lengths from Massachusetts' Tabor Academy...
...clutched at the ground with his ringers and rubbed his face back and forth across the sand. A great hole almost the size of a man's head opened below his belt. ... I noticed that his canteen was gone from one of his carriers but the cup was still there and . . . was half filled with blood...