Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime Philadelphia lawyer seemed strangely out of place among the fierce-eyed, quick-fingered, nerve-torn bridge experts competing for the Life Masters Pair Gold Cup at Miami Beach's Americana Hotel. In a game whose fascinating frustrations can bring out the worst of man's nature, he remained bland and smiling. In a game where a peek can be worth two finesses, he carelessly held his hand within easy view of roving eyes. He actually treated kibitzers as humans ("I might as well love them. I'm married to them"), and he went...
...left one mark on Charlie that the years have not erased: he has a nickel-nursing streak in him, even now that he rakes in a great many nickels. When he decided to donate a bridge trophy in his name several years ago, he bought an ancient horse-racing cup, had the old inscription chiseled off to make...
Great Britain's last flickering hope of taking the America's Cup died yesterday in the lashing backwash of Columbia's stern...
Staying tonight with private families in the Cambridge and Boston area, the delegates will journey to Newport tomorrow to witness the America's Cup race...
...Hamburg, the lightweights did not do so well against stiff Continental competition. An unfamiliar boat and a strange course hampered the crew. But the important victory had been gained. For the fifteenth time in the last seventeen years, an American crew toted home the yard-high Thames Challenge Cup, established just 90 years...