Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shop stewards man the gates, checking that no machinery or materials are being trucked away. But the first firings are scheduled for this week. Will the peaceful "workin" turn violent? Equally dramatic, if not quite so important: Will Sailor Ted's team win the coveted Admiral's Cup? To be continued...
...time to fight some more. After lofting his 6-iron shot onto the fringe of the 18th green, he putted to within 18 in. of the cup and holed out a birdie four to win with four consecutive sub-par rounds: 69, 70, 69 and 70. In the short span of one month, Lee Buck Trevino?Mexican-American, grade-school dropout, ex-Marine sergeant and all-round hustler?had become the first golfer in history to win the British, Canadian and U.S. Opens in the same year. "Now," he cried, "maybe they'll consider me a good international player...
...Five years ago, I was teeing up on dirt. Now I've got tees" ?thwack?"with my name on 'em." Orville Moody, one of Trevino's close friends on the tour, recalls how Lee shocked an unsuspecting gallery in Singapore when they were teamed in the 1969 World Cup matches. As Lee lined up a 20-ft. putt, the customary funereal hush fell over the crowd. Slowly, deliberately, he drew back his putter and then suddenly said, "With a million-dollar swing like mine"?tap?"I can't miss." He didn...
...part-time" Prime Minister, and the daily Sun has accused "Skipper Ted" of "sitting bronzed and beaming at the helm while the economy of the U.K. sinks slowly." The squalls of outrage really blew up when Heath, intent on winning a place in the ocean-going Admiral's Cup Race in August, went to a qualifying race instead of the trooping of the color on the Queen's official birthday, traditionally attended by the P.M. Morning Cloud won, but Skipper Ted came back to find a motion in Commons signed by five Labor M.P.'s and titled...
Winthrop led the Straus Cup competition by 38.7 points at the end of the winter schedule, but Quincy moved steadily closer with a first in the tennis league, a second in golf and softball, and a spot in the finals of the baseball tourney...