Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were more people--132,938 to be exact--than had ever seen six games of soccer played in New England. There was a superb caliber of play--the best ever in Olympic competition and nearly World Cup level, according to one informed soccer expert...
Before another sell-out crowd of 27,000, Cameroon, the reigning winners of the African Nations Cup, came out eschewing its normal precision offensive play, apparently preferring to wait back and play for a tie, which, as the standings of their division were shaping up, would have earned them a plane ticket to California...
...importance-sappy as that may sound. But when was the last time you saw a casually tossed cigarette butt snared by a youthful groundsman before it hit the sod? "My job is to keep this area clean," he said, walking away with the dirty object in the empty yogurt cup he had used as catcher's mitt...
...hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup," said Raymond Chandler. "Iowa with palms," said John Gunther. Too severe. Iowa cannot claim to have, in one city at least, a Little Tokyo, a Chinatown, a Koreatown, all of which have personality. Hard-boiled is another matter...
Cameroon, however, sports one of the best one-two combinations in between the posts. Taking over for N'kono is Antoine Bell, who was Cameroon's hero during the Nations Cup tournament. His wins over the Ivory Coast (2-0) and Algeri (0-0) powered his country to the championship...