Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affectionate and ingenious trivialities. He takes the random actions of strangers and old girlfriends into his musings and they come out pleasant speculations and philosophical chuckles. One four-pager describes the narrator's spring fun-ins with two of his ex-girlfriends that end with anti-climactic cups of coffee. "They say in the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love," Brautigan concludes. "Perhaps if he has enough time left over, his fancy can even make room for a cup of coffee." For other stories he doesn't stop to comment but lets his subject give...
cardboard cup in the street...
...little plastic packages, one containing bread, the other wine. "I poured the wine into the chalice which our church [Webster Presbyterian Church] had given me," Aldrin radioed later to Houston. "In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon and the first food eaten there were Communion elements. Just before I partook of the elements, I read the words which I had chosen to indicate our trust: John...
...Harvard more than any other team, but we take the big ones away from them all the time." Over the last few years the Harvard rugby team has completely dominated Princeton. For instance, the last three times the two teams have met in competition for the Farmington Cup, held at Farmington Connecticut, Harvard has won each contest...
Intramural standings are not only a matter of House pride. At the end of the season each House accumulates points towards the Strauss cup which is presented to the House with the most points at the end of the year...