Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectator boats rocked in the mildly choppy seas off Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship one morning last week, four sleek twelve-meters began the first of a series of races. Eight weeks from now, the winner will be named to defend the America's Cup against British challenger Sceptre (TIME, July...
...fell out of her cradle, got badly scratched. In her first race, her winches fouled up, and she was forced to quit. Designed by C. Raymond Hunt, Easterner is called "a family boat" by her owner, Boston Banker Chandler Hovey, who has tried three times before to produce a Cup defender (with Yankee in 1930 and 1934, with Rainbow in 1937). She will be skippered by his sons Charles and Chandler...
...guessed at. The ogre seems borrowed from the Mouth of Hell leading to Pluto's cave, as illustrated in medieval manuscripts on Ovid. The curious words ringing the ogre's mouth-Lasciate Ogni Pensiero Voi Que Entrate (Abandon all thought, ye who enter)-refer to the cup of forgetfulness ancient Greeks thought was drunk before crossing the river Lethe. The dragon-fighting lions (probably an oblique reference to political feuds) derived from a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci. The elephant with castle was a symbol used to depict Eleazar's slaying of the beast of King Antiochus...
...Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames, the University of Washington crew, whose trip to Britain was financed by voluntary subscription from loyal supporters, launched a gleaming cedar shell bought for them by U.S. admirers. But the long-legged Huskies, set to sail off with the Grand Challenge Cup, overlooked the heavily muscled Russians, who brought the same crew that narrowly lost to Cornell last year. Through a torrential thunderstorm Russia's Trud Club crew chopped off a snappy 37 strokes to the minute that gave them an immediate three-quarter-length lead. The Huskies started at 38, flagged...
America's other Henley hope, the University of Washington heavyweight crew, had been eliminated two days before the final by the Russian Trud (Labor) Crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup...