Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems, of course; I was 20, she was well past 70. Conflicts arose. There were times when I wanted to go to a ball game, and she wanted to sit at home and drool on the cat. Times when I wanted to go out dancing, to drink from the cup of life, and she wanted to sit at home and drool...
...bring psychic benefits to speaker and listener alike. A case in point is the false teacup story about President Nixon, which Kapferer says was spread by the official Chinese press. Instead of challenging the President, so the story goes, authorities arranged to have a performing magician pull the cup out of Nixon's briefcase and replace it with a cheap imitation. Kapferer thinks this rumor offered folk wisdom on how to deal with foreigners. "It showed the essential traits of the image the Chinese have of themselves," he explains, "the final victory of the resourceful Chinese over the crafty foreigner...
Harvard also won the Howe Cup Tournament held at Yale in February, snagging the seven-woman national championship title for the third time since the honor was initiated...
...only permanent property was a spoon and a cup," said Begun. "In four years I never saw a fork or a knife. Too dangerous." Light came mainly from two bulbs, one in the ceiling and a "night- light" near the door. Both were dim, but the one near the door was kept burning round the clock. "The light didn't bother our sleeping," Begun said. "Our struggle was always for a brighter bulb so we could see to read...
...when Calvi, who was known as "God's banker" because of his Vatican connections, was found hanging from London's Blackfriars Bridge, his pockets stuffed with $13,000 in / various currencies. Later Michele Sindona, the corrupt Italian financier who introduced Calvi to Marcinkus, died in jail after drinking a cup of coffee laced with potassium cyanide...