Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tense hush settled over the crowd that crammed Stockholm's Rasunda stadium. Out on the bright green turf of the soccer field, Brazil was dribbling to the attack. As they played their way toward the payoff rounds of the World Cup championship, the light-foot Latins had generated an awesome amount of ballyhoo. Now, in the semifinal game against France, Sweden's capital was getting its first chance to see just how good the Brazilian booters really were...
...curve of her underbody to the long, sharp sweep of her bow. But just eight months after lucky gold sovereigns were tossed into molten lead and her keel was cast on the shore of Scotland's Holy Loch, Britain's yare challenger for the America's Cup also looked a slow boat. In a dozen tune-up races with an elderly twelve-meter trial horse, Evaine, the gleaming Sceptre had been beaten every time. Last fortnight as Sceptre was hauled out of the water for inspection and checking, squalls of criticism blew across Britain...
With 14 weeks to go, reported the Times of London gloomily, Britain's current attempt to regain the America's Cup "was deemed to have all but failed." Boating buffs remembered 1939, when Evaine herself was beaten handily in British waters by the U.S.'s visiting Vim, now one of four potential U.S. cup defenders. There were better helmsmen available, critics argued, than Sceptre's 34-yearold skipper, Lieut. Commander Graham Mann, onetime sailing master for the royal family. As a matter of fact, some added, there were altogether too many navymen in the challenger...
Harold has a can of beer and a package of gum remaining; or a one-way subway token to Scalloy Square (he can come back tomorrow); or English muffiins and a cup of tea. Or a package of cigarettes. But it is night, the time of neon and lengthy shadows, streetlamps, hushed voices, nervous laughter, and sex. Night is Harold's garment of life...
...drew critical tribute from British reviewers, and France offered him a high decoration (see FOREIGN NEWS)-Elder (83) Statesman Sir Winston Churchill, with cigar, cane and topper, plunked down in the middle of the Ascot paddock to keep an eye on his Tudor Monarch in the $30,660 Gold Cup. Souring the big day, horse failed man as Tudor Monarch finished fourth behind the American-owned, Irish-trained mare Gladness...