Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel, after a one-hour flight from Alexandria, Premier Golda Meir insisted on meeting Nancy Kissinger before any official business in order to present her own wedding gift: two ancient Roman vases, one of which was a "tear cup" in which were supposedly collected the tears shed by brides over traveling husbands...
...seemed a storm in a stirrup cup. "Columbus was overridden and possibly even terrified," declared an outraged TV viewer of the Badminton horse trials in Gloucestershire. Animal Lover Jean Pyke was attacking Captain Mark Phillips for his handling of the hunter that had been lent to him by his mother-in-law for the grueling three-day contest of dressage, show and cross-country jumping. A big gray, Columbus had galloped off with the Whitbread Trophy to the delight of Winner Mark and Owner Queen Elizabeth, and the wifely acquiescence of Princess Anne, who placed fourth in the event. Mark...
...sold his two largest newspapers, the Sydney Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, to his archrival, Rupert Murdoch, for $20 million. Once an amateur heavyweight boxing champion, Packer was combative, even ruthless, in his business dealings. He described his unsuccessful bids for the yachting America's Cup in 1962 and 1970 as prompted by "an excess of champagne and delusions of grandeur...
...Philadelphia Flyers outhustled the Bruins, 4-1, yesterday to take a 2-1 lead in the Stanley Cup final series. The flyers scored twice in the first period, after the Bruins jumped off to a quick 1-0 lead, and then added two more goals in the third period to ice the game. The series continues in Philadelphia Tuesday night...
...Harvard, defeated by Navy the week before, enters the Eastern Sprints confidently. For two years previously the Crimson has lost to Penn in the Adams Cup only to come right back and take the Easterns...