Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stepped out of the bathtub and smithereened a plastic cup lying on the linoleum where, limp-armed, he had dropped it. He hopped on one leg to hold the twinge of pain, new pain he couldn't numb because that cup had served him the last of the gin bright September day: he just back from the war, starched Air Force uniform, two rows of colored ribbons on his chest, bound for glory; she just back from her high-class wartime job in Washington, home to marry the hero. But after the fourth mewling baby, she went to work...
...stepped out of the bathtub and smithereened a plastic cup lying on the linoleum where, limparmed, he had dropped it. He hopped on one leg to hold the twinge of pain, new pain he couldn't numb because that cup had served him the last of the gin the night before. He careened against the wall and his shoulder erupted again in fire. It seared, like it had last night when the lizard-skin boots kept swinging into him, fireballs exploding when they landed. He had already made himself forget whoever it was attached to the boots...
...National Hockey League, miracles never cease; they just run afoul of the Montreal Canadiens. So it was for the New York Rangers, last season's eleventh-place club that climbed this year to the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, only to founder, as have so many other miracles in so many other years, when matched against a team that has won championships across seven decades...
With the defeat of the Rangers, four games to one, the Montreal Canadiens captured their fourth straight Stanley Cup, their 15th in the past quarter-century, their 22nd championship in a skein that began...
...replaced by Michel ("Bunny") Larocque. Defenseman Larry Robinson, a 6-ft. 3-in. version of the legendary Bobby Orr, suffered a special torture. He was confronted by tactics that Ranger Coach Fred Shero devised when directing the Philadelphia Flyers against Orr's Boston Bruins in the 1974 Cup finals...