Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just a bit irritated because the Boston Bruins kept them from taking the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs in four straight games, the Montreal Canadiens went into the fifth game in their home-town Forum with fists, sticks and shoulders flying By the time the last man had picked himself otf the ice, les Canadiens had won 5-1 earned the National Hockey League championship for the second straight year...
...Crimson has won its three league matches so far this season, outscoring its opponents, 64 to 11. An understrength side lost 3 to 0 against the Indians in the Bermuda Intercollegiate Cup...
...important institution for the advancement of Continentalism is the coffee house. In an ill-lighted room, furnished with a gigantic coffee maker and a comatose young man playing the guitar, you pay 60 cents for a demitasse cup to fool with while you inhale the atmosphere of delicious imported wickedness. In an atmosphere of such exuberant freedom the most prosaic Radcliffe student can entertain titillating existentialist opinions, even though the only feeling of anxiety she may ever have is to wonder if she can pay for all the cafe au lait she has drunk, and her only feeling of dread...
...help Morocco to "achieve the status of an independent state, united to France by the permanent ties of an interdependence freely accepted and defined." Pinay even agreed that the terms of "interdependence" could be negotiated later (they are still unsettled). Grumbled one unreconstructed colon: "The Sultan asked for a cup of water and Pinay gave him the ocean...
...fired-up Montreal Canadiens retained the Stanley Cup, symbolic of National Hockey League supremacy, for a second consecutive year tonight, defeating the Boston Bruins...