Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were playing tennis with a ball last week in the sultry heat of Montego Bay, Jamaica. And McEnroe, once he settled down, was magnificent, defeating Nastase in three sets, his first tournament victory over the old campaigner. For his two hours of work at the World Championship Tennis Challenge Cup, McEnroe earned $10,000, raising his earnings to over $200,000 since he dropped out of Stanford University just six months ago, gave up washing his own socks and turned pro with a vengeance...
...money, and the hours, would be hard to beat, but McEnroe had other good reasons to be pleased. On the previous weekend, his temper well under control, he had led the U.S. team to victory over the British in the Davis Cup matches in Rancho Mirage, Calif, winning two singles without losing a set and overwhelming Buster Mottram in the key contest. No one in the 68 years of competition for the Cup had ever taken two singles matches so decisively in the finals. The win was the first in six years for the American team, which has been shunned...
...head, and, using a stiff and nearly invisible black wire, made Kermit's right hand strum the banjo strings. Another Muppeteer onshore worked a radio control that allowed Kermit's left hand to do the chord changes. Now and then, between takes, someone would row over and pass a cup of iced tea down to Henson through the rubber sleeve...
...just produced the largest crop yield of kiwi fruit in the state's history-15 tons per acre. She markets them at $2 per lb. to the Japanese, who consider the fuzzy fruit a rare delicacy. Tom O'Toole, a Detroit tinkerer, has invented a single-cup coffee brewer that he has begun to market to the Japanese. Next he will send them his production molds, which are priced at $90,000 and produce up to 15,000 brewers a day. Tolona Pizza Products of Chicago sells more than 500 tons of pizza ingredients a year...
...sober give him anything, he's a phony! He's a Hare fone of those Krishnas, Shit." A man shuffled up to spectator shouted. The Krishna seemed to get a bit Krishna!" The Santa didn't hesitate to identify the Santa and asked him for a buck for "a cup of ruffled under his bright new Santa suit and clean himself as a member of ISKCON and even invited coffee." The Krishna Claus looked self-consciously nylon beard. "Do you believe in Christmas--Christ the questioner to a "vegetarian feast." Krishna at the bills in his bucket. "How about some...