Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behavior of blood vessels, which register emotional upsets by expanding and contracting abnormally. Tulane's Drs. George E. Burch and Clarence T. Ray, searching for a simple means of registering psychosomatic disturbances "objectively," used a "plethysmograph." The subject sticks his finger tip into a plastic cup, and the machine records the finger's alternate swelling and contraction by measuring the tiny changes in the cup's air volume...
...survey the roll of the green. It was the U.S. Open Championship again, and he had to sink an 18-foot putt to get into the playoff match. Sammy stroked the ball, and a gallery of 3,000 stood in awed silence as it rolled up to the cup, plunked in. Then the gallery roared. Sammy puckered his lips and grinned. This time things were going to be different...
...hole even. Both had good drives of about 260 yards. Both pitched up to within 25 feet of the pin, though Worsham was still off the green. It looked like another playoff unless either sank a long one. Worsham shot first; his ball hit the right edge of the cup and bounced out. Snead's putt was short. Officials got out a tape measure: Snead's ball was 30½ inches away; Worsham's was 29½ inches. Without any green-reading, Sammy putted quickly. He missed the cup by two inches. Once again hard-luck Sammy...
...luxurious third-floor apartment of Havana's rococo presidential palace, bachelor Ramón Grau San Martin had finished his morning cup of sweet black coffee. On the stroke of 9 he walked down the private stairway to his office below. He was ready for a day-long procession of visitors...
Little Willie Turnesa, only amateur among the seven famed golfing Turnesa brothers, was the first to reach the final. Finishing early, he then helped out his Walker Cup team mate, Dick Chapman, who was having trouble in his semifinal round. Turnesa held an umbrella over Dick's head while he played his short game, and whispered helpful hints in his ear between times. Chapman finally won his match on the 18th green...