Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernie Bevin had been spoiling for this fight for 20 years. In the House of Commons canteen he gulped a cup of hot coffee and an unbuttered bun. Then he slumped down on his front bench to wait for the bell...
...loving-cup tempest over the world capital seethed and bubbled. One group of irate citizens banded together into a Committee for the Preservation of Greenwich-keep UNO out. Other citizens formed a smaller Greenwich Citizens Committee-bring UNO in. The Stamford Hills Association screamed like a porker that sees the knife. Some 10,000 other Stamford citizens signed petitions of delight...
...represents wifely charm in a mousey woolen bathrobe, a muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...
...sure to die a quick death. Sweden, best bet to win the European zone eliminations, drew a first-round pushover, The Netherlands. The U.S., with the Philippines No. i on its victim list, had still to choose its team from a serviceable but slightly shopworn list of likely Davis Cup candidates.* Cockily aloof from it all were the confident Australians, Davis Cup victors in 1939, likely repeaters...
When the Davis Cup finals are decided at Melbourne's Kooyong courts next December, the defending Australian team will be Bromwich and Pails in singles, Bromwich and Quist in the doubles. Said Australia's tennis boss Sir Norman Brookes, one of the wiliest players who ever trod a court: "We hope to retain the Davis Cup for a couple of years, at least . . . that is, if you'll allow me to pick the [U.S.] team...