Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Australia's Ken Rosewall and Lew Hoad hardly worked up a sweat making a clean sweep (5-0) of the challenge round for the Davis Cup. They breezed by the worst U.S. team in years, got no real opposition from Pennsylvania's Vic Seixas or California's Herb Flam, had only momentary trouble with an up-and-coming Texan named Sam Giammalva. With the big silver punch bowl lost to the Aussies for the second successive year, wishful-thinking U.S. fans salvaged some consolation from Giammalva's performance and the fact that Ken Rosewall decided right...
...Harvard Chess team defeated Columbia, 4 to 0, and won the Helden-Stephenson Trophy for the first time since the world war. The cup is the oldest American collegiate chess trophy...
...Michael Stewart, 20, whose father is president of a steam turbine company in Trenton, N.J., played end on Princeton's football team, won the John Prentiss Poe Memorial cup, the highest honor Princeton can bestow on a varsity football player. An honor student in philosophy, he was vice president of his class, president of his eating club, Cap and Gown, president of the Westminster Foundation, Presbyterian religious meeting group...
...usually ready for the practice tee with Ed Dudley, thence to the 400-yd. first hole for a tour of the front nine (he walked half the way, rode half in his golf cart). After a locker-room lunch (a medium-size steak and a glass of milk or cup of Sanka), Ike traveled Augusta's back nine, returned briefly to his office, rested and joined Mamie for dinner (a big steak) in the dining room recently added to her Augusta cottage. Some nights the President played bridge-but the lights were nearly always...
...competition, Harl thinks he's getting along very nicely. Cafe Capriccio, according to reports he's received, never approached making a serious cup of coffee. And Tulla and the lovely plump lady at Patisserie Gabrielle are on the best of terms. "There's really room for four or five coffee shops, if each is distinctive," Harl believes...