Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much whom he sees as how he sees them. After his formal audience with the Swiss Guards, the Pope settled down with them for a cup of tea. "We see each other every day," he said, "but we never get a chance to talk-you because of discipline and I because of protocol. It's about time we got better acquainted." He told the motorcycle cops: "Frankly, I would rather do without you. But you and I are both subject to rules and regulations, and we must try to make the best...
...give or receive aid during the course of an exam, they were free to take both question sheet and blue book anywhere they pleased, and to talk to whomever they wished. Unable to resisted the temptation, a few girls departed for the Square to take their finals over a cup of coffee in the Bick--an atmosphere hardly conducive to serious academic endeavor...
Besides winning the James H. Van Alen cup for the intercollegiate team championship, the Crimson also retained the John Hay Whitney Cup in the singles tournament, which was played off Sunday...
...lightmindedness. As a result, they appear as a set of almost interchangeably cheerful young men. Gretchen Kanne misses the hothouse bloom of Gwendolyn, who exists in and through Society like an elegant bacterium in its nutrient broth. (In the midst of an ineffably decorous cat-fight, Gwendolyn accepts a cup of tea from her rival with the aside, "Detestable girl! But I require tea!") (italics mine...
...minutes later, Farmer North was through with a job that would have taken five men half a day working with buckets and pitchforks. He was ready to indulge his hobby. He returned to his farmhouse and poured himself another cup of coffee. While it cooled, he read a story on the "farm problem" in the Wall Street Journal. Carrying his cup and a cigarette, he walked into his living room, 40 feet long and beige-carpeted wall to wall. It was dominated at the far end by a two-story pipe organ flanked by two electronic organs and a grand...