Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roger lit another cigarette and looked down at his cup of coffee. Then he looked up and said, "This coffee eats shit!" He ran over to one of the benign service ladies and yelled, "This coffee eats shit! This coffee eats shit! This coffee eats shit!" He was very loud about...
...cycle repeated itself again last month when Penn whipped Harvard on the Charles in the Adams Cup regatta, only to lose at Worcester the following weekend. And since the Crimson has decided neither to race at the I.R.A. nor follow Penn to Henley in July, the issue will still be open...
More importantly, Parker places a higher value upon rowing one's best rather than winning. In fact, when his seven-man hurt his hand so severely before the Stein Cup race last April that he was a questionable starter, Parker allegedly told his crew that he would seriously consider forfeiting the regatta, one the Crimson was sure to win easily, if the oarsmen could not compete. He was that concerned about the shell staying together as a unit...
...large degree the result of the Crimson's confidence in Parker' morcover, that Harvard has managed to turn the trick on Penn at the Sprints with such authority in each of the last two years. In each instance, Penn's margin of victory in the Adams Cup a week earlier had seemed to make the Quakers insuperable at Worcester. But after each defeat Parker noticed something that he and his oarsmen corrected during practice sessions, and at Worcester, it was Harvard that was insuperable...
Both of Penn's Adams Cup victories were achieved with the help of an explosive start that got the Quakers out front early, and kept them there. If Harvard could only burst off the start equally fast, Parker thought the Crimson's traditional ability to move on a boat while understroking it could win it the race. And in each case, that is exactly what happened...