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Word: cupped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quirks. Want to buy anoutlandish, outrageous, totally wacko gift forsome zany friend? Go to Good's (Faneuil Hall).Their collection includes wind-up walking sushicomplete with chopsticks, AM coffee cup radios,lava lamps, and blow-up dinosaurs. To break up theHong Kong routine, try Good's x-rated fortunecookies...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: 26 Ways to Say `Merry Christmas' | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...looks a bit like a skinny dinghy with a spinnaker. But while sleek 12- meter racing yachts were battling the stormy seas off the western coast of Australia in the America's Cup trials these past weeks, a much more modest vessel was being launched in the calmer waters of a harbor in nearby Fremantle. The skipper of the miniature marvel is none other than Ben Lexcen, 50, the celebrated designer of Australia II, which won the America's Cup in 1983. Featuring a scaled-down version of Lexcen's revolutionary winged keel, the 14-ft.-long fiber-glass Mini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 24, 1986 | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...needed something to do after that last cup of coffee or last party," she says. "Something exciting...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Despite her little learning, Ellen is something of a student of the language. She ponders little oddities of British speech: "I wonder why everything always has to be nice, a nice cup of tea, a nice plate of bread and butter." Not surprisingly, the term brothel attracts her attention: "That is a terrible word and yet also a funny word, kind of domestic in a way, it always brings back my aunt saying when I was a kid living with her: Drink it all up now, that broth'll stick to your ribs." She looks at stale sayings with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow the Pianoplayers | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...GOLDEN CUP, Plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editor's Choic | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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