Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took a sip from her cup of coffee. I asked her if she wanted something to eat. "You're looking awfully thin," I said...
...British pubs and parlors, the coming general elections were all but ignored in favor of an even more pressing issue. Little more than a week before the start of the cup matches in Mexico City, Bobby Moore, captain of England's World Cup soccer team, was arrested in Bogotá, Colombia, on charges of stealing a $1,400 emerald-studded bracelet. The jeweler filed suit for an extra $11,000 in "moral damages," and police picked up hints that Soccer Superstar Bobby Charlton had been Moore's accomplice. Moore is now free on "conditional liberty," but Charlton...
...piece of raw meat." Known to their foes as "the Animals," the Boston Bruins have long been the toughest, roughest, meanest, most penalized team in the National Hockey League. Unfortunately, they usually won more fights than games; in the past eleven seasons, the Bruins failed to make the Stanley Cup play-offs eight times, and their last cup victory was in 1941. "Some people say they've been rebuilding since then," says Scotty Bowman, coach of the St. Louis Blues. "I don't think so. I think they started rebuilding in 1948-the year Bobby Orr was born...
...loose puck off the St. Louis boards, passed to Teammate Derek Sanderson in the corner, broke for the goal, took a return pass, tripped acrobatically and slammed the puck into the net. The score gave the Bruins a four-game sweep of the Blues and their first Stanley Cup victory in 29 years...
Long of hair and short of temper, Best, 23, has been a marked man since 1968, when he led the Manchester United eleven to their first European Cup championship and was named Footballer of the Year. At 5 ft. 9 in. and 150 Ibs., he looks like a sparrow in shorts next to the burly "hatchetmen" who triple-team him to cries of "Break the bastard's legs!" Best's revenge is "to make them feel so inferior they'll never want to play football again." He does it with speed, deception and an uncanny skill...