Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uneasy sensation that he was becoming a victim of technocracy-"merely a stooge for mechanical contraptions." But he solved that problem by insinuating himself into the telecast. Because he has to remain an offstage voice and seldom appears on the screen, he devised such tricks as calling for a cup of coffee on a bitter day and munching peanuts audibly at a ball game...
...learn, Rank works 18 hours a day. He spends a half-day a week on his flour-mill affairs, the rest of the week on his movies. He is up and into a cup of tea by 7 a.m. in his suite in London's Dorchester Hotel. Before 8, in pops John Davis, 39, a slim, sharp Englishman who is Rank's general manager and heir apparent. He occupies the neighboring suite so that his encyclopedic movie knowledge, learned in 18 years in the business, is always at hand. By 9:30, Rank is in his office...
Finalists in the annual College Sculling Regatta will ruffle up the Charles this afternoon, as leaders in each of the six oars divisions race for the silver medals and Dorsey Memorial Cup waiting at the finish line. The four singles winners will enter a playoff tomorrow to decide the lop-ranking undergraduate sculler...
Cayuga's blue waters saw the Varsity crew knocked from the ranks of the high and unbeaten by an inspired Cornell eight, but the Jayvees won while the 150 crew brought the Goldthwaite Cup back to Cambridge for the sixth straight regatta, beating out Yale and Princeton at Derby. Jayvee and Freshmen 150's both were beaten...
...interpreter wanted to carry her camera on a Sunday afternoon outing; the unobtrusive little men in blue serge suits who kept turning up in the back of our box at the opera . . . the embarrassed refusals of nearly everyone whom we asked to our rooms for a chat and a cup of tea. ... It is a fact of pointed interest to Americans, since it is shaping-or warping-the entire Soviet foreign policy...