Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evenings, over a cup of jasmine tea or a Bourbon oldfashioned, the Special Envoy would mull over the day's progress. In slippers and dressing gown, he would sit at his desk in the study bedroom, where two photographs of. Mrs. Marshall looked at him reassuringly, and pen terse reports to Washington...
...ancient times a hollow rhino horn was supposed to be a poisonproof cup, would supposedly crack, if poison were poured into it. Nonbeliever Charles II disproved this...
...race since 1944, and Trainer Charlie Leavitt almost scratched him-but Owner Ethel Hill insisted that he run. He ran as he never had before, nosed out the dapple-grey favorite, First Fiddle, in a four-horse photo finish. To the owner, a Hollywood scenario writer, went a gold cup, a $101,220 purse, and a cool handshake from her boss, Louis B. Mayer, whose entry (Be Faithful) finished seventh...
Cloth-capped, grey-skinned Barnsley coal miners tumbled eagerly out of their special train for the long ride through Bradford's grey streets to '"t Coop" (the football Cup Final). Bradford textile workers watched the football fans, shouted angrily: "Wheer's 't coal? Slacking again?" The miners replied: '"T coal's in Barnsley. Go and help thysen...
...brightest young postwar net stars the U.S. has developed, Mouledous is a good bet to shine in future Davis Cup competition, unless Hollywood gets there first. Last week, a talent scout who saw Dick's picture in a New Orleans paper signed him up for 20th Century-Fox. Said the scout: "He's got a face that will appeal to women...