Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it seemed that millions of people would give their left arms for tickets to the World Cup soccer match, Kissinger came up with some choice seats without any strain. He ordered his jet to take a detour for one game, and was lifted by Luftwaffe helicopter to the playing field. When he got to his hotel in Munich for the finals, there was a call waiting for him from Elizabeth Taylor. "She wanted to get a briefing on the European Security Conference," he said, the old Kissinger grin growing wide above his chins...
...about to take any unnecessary risks in their latest effort. As Cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Yuri Artyukhin, both 44, whirled around the earth aboard their Salyut 3 space station, ground control sternly refused to let them listen to the semifinal match between Poland and Brazil in the World Cup championship. The excitement, the controllers feared, might stir up the cosmonauts' pulse beats and blood pressure. But after a while, Soccer Nut Popovich could bear the suspense no longer. "How did they play? What's the score?" he demanded. Told that the Soviet Union's East bloc allies had eked...
Seven and a half million early-morning television viewers are looking for someone to watch over their eye-opening cup of bad news. Before the start of the fall season, NBC must make the big decision-who will be the man to fill the late Frank McGee's spot on Today? Explains one network insider about the Great Host Hunt: "They're trying to make up their minds whether to go with somebody controversial, somebody offbeat or Mr. Nice...
When a crew loses two of its key oarsmen just prior to a race like Henley, you can usually count that boat out as a possible contender for a trophy as prestigious as the Thames Cup. So when the Harvard varsity lightweight crew learned that number two man Paul McKenna had an infection in his heart and number seven Todd Howard had eligibility problems, thus preventing both from going to England, the lights' chances of victory seemed out the window...
Harvard's Porcellian Club provided the only bright spot for Crimson crew fans at the Henley Regatta finals Sunday, sweeping past England's Nottingham Rowing Club by a two-and-one-quarter-length margin to capture the Wyfold Cup for fours without cox. Porcellian's time was 7:27 for the 2000-meter course...