Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Australia is threatening to prohibit its top amateurs from playing at Wimbledon - mainly for fear of having them wiped up by the pros, a circumstance that would damage the prestige of the Davis Cup (which the Aussies have won 21 times) and of amateur tennis in general. Italy's tennis officials are so angry at the espousal of open tennis that they are trying to get Britain expelled from the I.L.T.F...
...Cleveland Industrialist and Russophile Cyrus Eaton. Wessner was clad in a black Halloween "death" costume and toted a scythe-a grim tableau that found an almost exact duplicate in Des Moines. Nine young men turned in their draft cards in Cincinnati, after dipping them in a cup full of blood contributed by two Antioch students. When the group attempted to dissuade a Negro inductee, Kenneth Dunn, 19, from entering the center, he told them: "I'm willing to lay my life down if necessary so that you can bitch and protest, but I don't suppose...
...Cup of Tea." Exercising the captain's prerogative, Dr. Christiaan Barnard moved into the first operating room and cut eight blood vessels to free Denise Darvall's heart; then he severed it from its ligament moorings. It was disconnected from the pump, and was carried to Washkansky's room, where it was connected to a small-capacity heart-lung machine. There it lay, chilled and perfused with oxygenated blood, while Surgeon Barnard removed most-but not quite all -of Washkansky's heart. He left in place part of the outer walls of both the auricles...
...went the pump again for another five minutes. This time, when it was stopped, the heart did not falter. It could do the work. The surgeons closed Washkansky's chest. The operation, "from skin to skin," had taken 4¾ hours. It was 7 a.m. "I need a cup of tea," said Dr. Barnard...
...more likely, and grammatical, interpretation of what the Beatles sing than "matter". 11) from an old English schoolboy's rhyme: "Alligator, crocodile, custard pie/All mixed together with a dead dog's eye/Spread it on a sandwich nice and thick/ And swallow it down with a cup of cold sick" 11a) If this isn't Capitol's inaccurate estimation of "Grab a lock of", then the Beatles have created a nonsense in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, one that (intentionally) sounds like the first phrase. 12) i.e. panties. 13) mumbled in the background. 13a) cross between "textbook" and preceding word...