Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cuts a debonair figure in top hat and tails. The occasion for swapping whites for white tie: World Tennis magazine was formally celebrating his 1982 ranking as No. 1. Last year Connors, 30, won both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, but he elected not to play in the Davis Cup last week. His countrymen could have used him; the U.S. team was knocked out in the first round by the Argentines in Buenos Aires. Connors might not have been much help; last week he was defeated by an unknown from South Africa in the Belgian Indoor Championships. Could...
...Straus Cup competition. In a topic that strikes closer to home, with the end of the winter season Eliot House has a good chance of surging into the lead of the intramural competition...
...been a long time since Italy had anything to cheer about of this magnitude. The Azzuri had last won the World Cup in 1938. Since then there had been no victories in war, no diplomatic triumphs, nothing but the frustrations of a small country trying unsuccessfully to distinguish itself on a world scale...
...World Cup victory provided an outlet for celebration which Italy had been sorely lacking. Eighty-five-year-old President Sandro Pertini called it the greatest day for Italy since he had assumed office seven years before...
...this observer, the night of the World Cup began in Turin with wild street celebrations. It ended in Milan, where I was expected to report to work the next morning. Somewhere in between came a two-hour train ride, but that journey has faded into oblivion...