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Word: cupped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These are intelligent, perfectionist males who are usually intolerant of the feelings of those around them," says Psychiatrist Burton Podnos, administrator of the local Mental Health Center. Absorbed all day in scientific precision, engineers are apt to accuse their wives of sloppy housekeeping if they find an unwashed coffee cup in the sink. It is hard for some of them to understand why there is not an effective system for toilet-training the baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communities: Life in the Space Age | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...yesterday, though weakened by a mysterious influenza virus, it attacked the regatta when it needed to, leaving a strong Scottish Argonaut eight three seconds behind in the opening round of the Thames Challenge Cup...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Lights Win First Race at Henley | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

...basis of previous times, the Crimson has been seeded as the favorite to capture the Thames Cup. But both Penn and M.I.T. are fine boats, and a relapse of virus, if it is enough to merely weaken Harvard, could send the Crimson home empty-handed for the second consecutive summer...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Lights Win First Race at Henley | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

...many challenge races the Regatta offers, the Thames Cup ranks second only to the Grand Challenge cup in terms of difficulty and prestige. The absence of weight limits, which will throw the lights boats outweighing them by 50 pounds per man, presents the Crimson boat with another problem...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Light Crew Seeks Thames Cup | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

...must not be underestimated, either. The Crimson roared unchallenged through four races during the regular season, then scattered a bid by a undefeated Penn boat all over the Lake Quansigamond at the Sprints. Its 6:02 clocking against Navy rates as the best effort of any of the Thames Cup entries, and its ability to grab an early lead and hold it has become a formidable Harvard trademark...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Light Crew Seeks Thames Cup | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

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