Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard varsity boats celebrated the Fourth of July by winning the championship of international rowing, the Henley regatta. The heavyweights won the coveted Grand Challenge Cup, rowing's greatest honor, while the lightweight crew successfully defended the Thames Challenge Cup...
Grounds for Arrest. In San Francisco, John Hagerman was spotted on a safecracking job at Fred Hudkins Inc. when he took time out to brew a cup of tea in the company lounge...
...York socialite family of Swiss origin, Columbus came to his specialty by a combination of inheritance and intellectual curiosity. The family vocation was banking, but its avocation was sailing. His great-uncle, C. Oliver Iselin, was four times a defender of the America's Cup. ("He could afford it -he married two rich women," says Columbus.) His father, Lewis Iselin, sailed less gaudily but no less enthusiastically, racing Star boats on Long Island Sound...
...feast of the visual imagination. Herself the wife of a painter, she stipples Praise with vivid vignettes. And when it comes to dialogue, her ear is as good as her eye. Author de Lima raises a storm, all right, even if it is only a tempest in an espresso cup...
...four Harvard spare oarsmen, two from each crew, had planned to enter competition for the Wyfold Challenge Cup, but had to withdraw when they couldn't find a suitable sponsor...