Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson said he does not want untrained students in the competition. He said that they were the people who got hurt, and that in the closely contended battle for the Straus Cup, Houses have just thrown bodies into the ring to pick up points...
Volpe said that Mather House got the short end of the stick as a result of the decision. "Just as Adams House is strong in swimming, we're strong in boxing; but now it won't help us in our bid for the Straus Cup," he said...
Carter (third) and Steele (tenth) were the Crimson's highest finishers in Sunday's Mt. Snow Cup giant slalom race. The race, which Beusman and Adler also qualified for, was an Eastern "A" race. A certain number of FIS points are needed to qualify for Eastern races...
...taken blindfolded to a prison in Hanoi, installed in a room about 15 by 15 ft., furnished with two desks and a wooden plank bed with a boarded-up window. There he was to spend the first 36 days in solitary confinement. He was immediately issued personal supplies-a cup, toothpaste, tooth brush, shirts, trousers, blankets, a teapot. The food was opulent enough by P.O.W. standards-sweet milk and half a loaf of bread in the morning, thick potato or cabbage soup for lunch, along with soybean cakes, or fish cakes, and sometimes a ration of pork. Later...
...this point, however, Buckholz's bad angel has led him into a region of formidable murk. The stated business of the novel is nothing less than a search for the Unholy Grail-the pewter cup, Buckholz imagines, from which Judas drank at the Last Supper. The searchers are Matthew Mendelsohn, a 33-year-old former New York state senator, and Lise, a moonstruck German beauty. For three years they have excavated the beaches and caves of Ibiza -Lise because she believes with the force of mania that the cup is there, Matthew because he believes serenely in nothing...