Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while after Tunisia was cleared of the Axis, he lived in a palatial villa, where the King and Queen visited him and Winston Churchill paddled in the pool. Now he lives and works in a London house with his aide and two staff officers. He breakfasts on a cup of tea, holds his morning conference at eight sharp...
...Sammy Baugh is the greatest football player in the world." This assertion comes from Cup(A) Richard Tuckey, director of the afternoon calisthenics classes at Soldiers Field and assistant football coach for the coming season, If experience is an indicator, Chief Tuckey ought to know, for he played beside the great Baugh in the seasons of 1938 and '39 on the Washington Redskins, and against him the next year on the Cleveland Rams...
...homely men, with wives, children and mothers they adore, youngsters with sweethearts back home to whom they're longing to return, men who to our astonishment don't boast or chew gum, don't get fresh and who genuinely appreciate a friendly smile, a chat, a cup of tea, are ridiculously generous...
...stage, a rake-voiced orator tripped through his garden of adjectives. The man he was describing sat amidst the delegates below, hunched forward in his chair, sneaking bites from a hot dog and sips from a paper cup of soda pop, paying no more attention to the routine speech than the rest of the audience did. The speech was about him, but neat, grey little Harry Shippe Truman, 60, has heard thousands of speeches in his years of politics...
Veteran of many racing seasons in Long Island waters near his Syosset home, he defended the leadership in the six-metre class, and took part in the Bermuda Cup races. With the approach of the present war came active duty as a Lieutenant in 1940, and promotion to present rank followed on October...