Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thursday will be taken up by a trip to Newport, R.I., where the delegates will be taken out to sea on U.S. and Canadian destroyers to watch the America Cup Challenge. A news conference and panel-discussion open to the public are scheduled for Friday, and Saturday's banquet will close the meeting...
Eating is a serious business--a matter of man's ultimate adaptability, involving both a sinister intuitive sense and a strong constitution. Breakfast is a cup of coffee (with cream for added nourishment) and a ten-cent side order of buttered toast. (Harold watches with a surly viligance; there's always the chance that the grim, spindly individual who passes for an all-night cafeteria cook might slight students on butter.) Harold is careful not to tear apart and devour the bread; his meal is precise and aristocratic, punctuated with frequent glasses of free water...
...friends and old rivals at hundreds of races, they are two of the finest sailors in the world. But each had only a supporting role at the start of the summer's competition to choose the U.S. boat that this month will defend the America's Cup -world's most prestigious sailing trophy -against the British challenger Sceptre. Last week, as the final trials of the four 12-meter yachts began in open ocean ten miles off Newport, R.I., the two took over. Cornelius ("Corny") Shields was at the wheel of the spanking-new Columbia...
Going into this week's final action, the heavy favorites to be picked by the selection committee to defend the America's Cup against Sceptre were Columbia and wily Corny Shields, who knew how to squeeze every knot of speed...
...revealed, is made of at least twelve different herbs and roots (his secret). The recipe came down to him through his grandfather and father, but is so complex that it took him seven years to learn to brew a proper cup. Dosage for any and all mental ills: one piping hot cup the first day, three daily with meals for the next three days. Upjohn tried it on a white mouse, which is trained to leap onto a wooden block at the sound of a bell to escape an electric shock. After ten minutes the mouse walked sedately...