Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liver and prunes and applesauce that looks like gunpowder." Mr. Adams has a delicate stomach. "I asked Lillie [Mrs. Adams] to fix me some tea. She made it out of one of those little tea balls." Mr. Adams made the motions of gently dipping a tea ball into a cup, " 'Lillie,' I said, 'this tea with no leaves won't do me no good. I need the leaves and a gypsy to go with them...
...John Lewis, who has ridden contemptuously over the Government, over the public, over his own labor colleagues and even over his own mine workers, the verdict was peculiarly appropriate. But the decision went beyond Lewis. It stirred up the tea leaves in all of organized labor's cup...
...closed, extinction of the champion crew seems certain. Reassuring word for any disappointed Crimson oarsmen, however, has drifted down from Northampton, where a boatload of inexperienced but definitely eager beauties has been training all fall, and is apparently ready and willing to take a crack at the Charles Challenge Cup...
...Cup of Coffee. Innumerable plans for new laws had been proposed already. Senator Homer Ferguson had a plan. Senator Wayne Morse had a plan. Various witnesses had plans. On the other side of Congress, various Representatives had plans. New York's freshman Senator Irving Ives, a longtime student of labor relations, proposed that House and Senate set up a joint committee to confer with management and union leaders and "work out a program helpful to everyone." The legislative hopper began to look like Mrs. Peterkin's cup of coffee, into which she accidentally put salt (in Lucretia...
Like Marshall's, Admiral William F. Halsey's cup was overflowing. At Columbia, he got an' honorary LL.D.; in Philadelphia, the local chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution handed him its Good Citizenship Medal...