Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheer futility, frustration and fiscal irresponsibility, nothing in sport can match the attempts of non-American sailors to capture the America's Cup-the $500 trophy that has remained in U.S. hands for 115 years. The British have tried 16 times, the Canadians twice, the Australians once-all have failed. Hope still springs, as long as somebody springs for the price (upwards of $300,000) of a sleek 12-meter yacht. Next September Australia will go again. After trial races in Sydney last week, Top Skipper Jock Sturrock, 51, was eager to boast that...
Buckpasser, the leading contender for Horse of the Year honors, will make his last northeastern start of 1966 this afternoon in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Aqueduct...
...their wives took part in the Pago à Go-Go, draping the President with ulas-Samoan leis-made of shells. In an even more honorific ritual, the Johnsons were offered coconut shells filled with a bitter concoction made from pulverized roots and known as kava. Lyndon barely touched the cup to his lips; but Lady Bird, offered the cup by a chief with a hibiscus tucked behind his ear, gamely gulped about a teaspoonful (she allowed later that "it had a medicinal taste...
...Quarterback Huarte and End Jack Snow (Los Angeles Rams). After Huarte and Snow graduated in 1965, Parseghian had to settle for grind-it-out ground attack; although the Irish lost only two games, he still shivers at the memory. "It was not," says Ara, "my cup...
Hanratty and Seymour are not just a cup: they are a whole washtub-just what Ara ordered to flood new life into his Notre Dame attack, and maybe, just maybe, spark the Irish to the national championship he has been pining for ever since that last-game loss to Southern Cal knocked Notre Dame out of the No. 1 spot in the 1964 rankings. "Sure I want the title," Parseghian admits. "What else is there to shoot for, since we don't belong to any conference or go to post-season bowls?" In the meantime, though, he is playing...