Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Davis Cup, stowed away in an Australian vault for six years, was polished last week for an old ritual. In Melbourne's ancient Town Hall, twenty envelopes, containing challenges from 20 nations, were plucked one by one from the big silver bowl. This ceremony, to determine the 1946 Davis Cup draw, set the wheels of international tennis turning again...
...Cross Knight, were elegant, Raphael-like and beautiful enough to stick in the public's mind. The boy who went to work as a sculptor's apprentice when he was ten was given degrees at Oxford and Cambridge, and grandly declined a baronetcy. His cup was running over when, at 70, Watts really fell in love-this time with a woman...
Double Birdie. In Fresno, Calif., a golf ball lustily swatted by C. S. Swanson smacked a blackbird, dropped four feet from the cup, was holed for a birdie...
Claghorn, who carries professional Southernhood about as far as it can go, tells how he was weaned on mint juleps, drinks only from a Dixie cup, sees only Ann Sothern movies, shuns Ann Sheridan, never listens to Mr. & Mrs. North, avoids the Lincoln Tunnel. His hat is a Kentucky derby. He naturally hates compasses for the way they point. Typical script...
...Littles lived near Manhattan's Central Park, where sailboat enthusiasts like to sail their miniature craft. In one of the headiest competitions since the America's Cup races, Stuart sailed the Wasp to victory...