Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ration of one pound every five weeks would not be so bad. (He did not point out that his statistics were based on total population, including adults who do not drink coffee and children under 15, who will get none under rationing.) But every coffee drinker knew that one cup a day represented a drastic cut. The panic buying went on, with no signs of stopping until shelves were bare. In some places anti-hoarders even began picketing the coffee queues-quite in vain...
...what it used to be, or at least it won't be in a short while. Coffee shortages have grown so acture around the Square that blends of pure coffee and chicory will soon be pressed into service, according to four restaurateurs who don't know where their next cup of coffee is coming from...
...scraping along on what they are able to beg, borrow, or steal. Only getting 50 or 60 per cent of what they were using, these places have tried to restrict the sale of coffee in various ways, including stopping sale of "coffee to go" and limiting people to one cup of coffee per meal. Hazen's, formerly using 100 pounds a week, now only gets 40-odd. The late-at-night business had been hit especially hard by this shortage, the manager said...
...nation's coffee drinkers got the official bad news this week: after Nov. 28 they get one pound of coffee every five weeks-enough for one cup...
Killed in Action. R.A.F. Wing Commander George H. Stainforth, 43, veteran speed flyer; in the Middle East. He won the Schneider Cup (air-race trophy) in 1931, then broke the world's seaplane speed record. He was the oldest fighting pilot in the Middle East...