Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the day, students meander in for a quick cup of coffee and a cigarette or for a casual talk with their classmates. Students say that without the Commons, there would be no way for students to get to know each other outside the classroom; because most Ed School students live off-campus with their families and study at home, along with holding part-or full-time jobs, the Commons enables them to gossip about their classes, to share previous experiences, or simply to study together in a convenient locale outside of the library...
...despite this strict regimen, "he was almost always willing to go out for a beer of a cup of coffee," said Matt Hamel, a close friend of King's who graduated last year...
...while listening to a women's quartet sing Down by the Old Mill Stream. He shocked (and delighted) housewives by using a toy outhouse as a comic prop. Performing a chicken noodle soup commercial for one of his TV sponsors, Lipton's, Godfrey made a cup, spooned through it, and said, "I see lots of noodles. I do not see any chicken." Then he tasted the soup and added, "Yes, that is chicken. It might have walked through the water once." Lipton executives probably winced, but the tongue-in-cheek salesmanship worked. Whatever Godfrey sold, he spoofed...
...high school football player, Mahre enjoyed the crashes. On the night before the last race of the 1981 World Cup, when he had to finish among the top three to become America's first champion, Mahre played three hours of basketball despite friends' hysterical warnings. No ski coach has ever been able to dissuade either Mahre brother from motocross racing in the offseason. "A lot of people say I'm crazy," Phil said, "but I think all these things are games, and games...
...After the race, Mahre and Stenmark stood together for a time at the base of the mountain, still panting from their runs, Mahre bareheaded, Stenmark wearing an elfin cap topped by a ball of yarn. The ball bounced about slowly as the man who has won the most World Cup races of all shook his head, and then he shook Mahre's hand. Later, asked how he would celebrate, Mahre said, "Oh, I don't know, with a chocolate chip cookie maybe." -By Tom Callahan