Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle West in the 1930s. That was all anybody knew. The police were intensely curious as to why Al's bodyguard, one Anthony Coppola, was in a drugstore across the street when Al was ventilated. Anthony was just doing what his kind always does; he was having a cup of coffee...
...Tokyo's delicately landscaped Kasumigaseki (Sea Mist) golf course, with its 200-year-old pine trees, its wiry Korai-grass greens, and its slight but well-stacked female caddies, was too much for the occidental stars competing for the Canada Cup. While U.S. Tourists Sam ("Mr. Sneado") Snead and Jimmy Demaret paced the visitors with a respectable 72-hole total of 566, pudgy Torakichi Nakamura teamed up with Manchurian-born Koichi Ono to score an incredible 557. Said an observer of the Japanese: "I never saw such putting in my life." Said Mr. Sneado: "I never saw better caddies...
Last week Emmy-winning Bishop Sheen announced that he would leave TV "temporarily" in order to devote more time to his "first duty, which is to be a beggar with a tin cup in my hand for the poor of the world." Added Sheen: "From a worldly point of view there are many reasons for continuing on TV; but from a spiritual point of view, one must occasionally retire from the lights of TV to the shades and shadows of the Cross, where the soul is refreshed and strengthened. As the retirement was dictated by spiritual considerations, so will...
...visibly stronger in flesh tones than mystery (see cut). Recalled Sir Gerald: "I put a devil of a lot of hard work into that picture. It took me four years, on and off, to paint. The model who posed for it would not have been everyone's cup of tea. She had a stocky figure, long-limbed and healthy looking, but no grace or elegance. It was an arduous pose, and she behaved like an archangel though she ached like the devil afterwards...
...Waterloo!" shouted a gleeful spectator when the good news, 7 to 4 for Britain, was posted on the Scoreboard. For golfers, it was at least that. It took Wellington only four days to beat Napoleon. It had taken Britain 24 years to whip the United States for the Ryder Cup...