Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senior Ben Emory skippered a crew of seven Harvard yachtsmen to a fifth place finish in the two-day McMillan Cup Regatta at Annapolis, Md., over the weekend. The Naval Academy invited ten colleges, including six from the Ivy League, to race its fleet of 44-foot yawls in the Regatta's 38th running...
...sick-comedy phase. The Killing of Sister George, a smash hit now playing in London, centers on an elderly, cigar-smoking lesbian and her doll-baby secretary-companion. Whenever the younger woman offends the older, she is forced to atone for it. One penance is to drink a cup of the old lesbian's bath water, another is to chew up one of her soggy cigar stumps...
...Ryder Cup golf team: its fourth straight victory in the biennial match-play tournament with British pros, scoring 191 points in 32 matches; at Southport, England. Ahead 9-7 after the two-ball and four-ball foursomes, the ten-man U.S. team smashed through the singles, taking ten and halving one of 16 matches, with Arnold Palmer clinching the tournament by stroking an 18th-hole eagle to beat his opponent's birdie-and dazzle an army that included Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
...those who believe in the need for good men to resist the excesses of bad, this is a satisfying book. For those who see the Communists in Southeast Asia as simple, guileless and misled peasants, the descriptions of Laotian guards spitting into a cup of cold rice before giving it to the prisoners or shrieking with laughter when one of them looses a burst of machine-gun fire above the heads of the squatting, dysentery-stricken Americans should be enlightening. So, in a different manner, should be the details of the chill and efficient command role played in Laos...
...cold stares and fixed my gaze on a sign over the counter. "ALL