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Word: cups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muffin restaurant, whose "bottomless cup" warmed caffeine-swilling students and shivering street people alike, closed abruptly yesterday morning...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Popular Coffee Shop Closes | 7/29/1986 | See Source »

...Turner, 47, victorious skipper of the 1977 America's Cup, long- suffering proprietor of the Atlanta Braves baseball and Hawks basketball teams and minor-league historian. "When I was a kid, I read a lot," he recalls. "History was my main subject." An adventurer "working outside official circles," he puts himself in mind of Alexander the Great, though he can also go on about Lord Nelson and Jiminy Cricket. "Who is this Jiminy Cricket?" inquired a Soviet journalist last week, and the man's eyes grew at the rate of Pinocchio's nose when he heard Turner explain, "Jiminy Cricket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Less Than Goodwill Games | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...accounted for all his team's goals in the quarter- and semi-finals, but Diego Armando Maradona, 25, won soccer's World Cup for Argentina last week by not scoring a single point. Throughout the final match against West Germany before a Mexico City crowd of nearly 115,000, the short, burly superstar with the pumping-piston legs played the decoy, drawing suffocating attention from as many as three defenders whenever he got the ball. A foul against him led to the first score, and with only six minutes remaining in the game, Maradona angled a perfect pass to Midfielder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 14, 1986 | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...final of the Grand Challenge Cup, which the Harvard varsity eights won lastyear, Nautilus Rowing Club, the British nationalcrew, defeated the University of Pennsylvania. TheQuakers had upset national champion Wisconsin onSaturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Freshman Eight Lose Ladies' Cup Finals | 7/8/1986 | See Source »

...grace notes have slipped through in the past year. Lendl's former countryman Martina Navratilova, after eleven years away, is returning this month to Prague to compete in the Federation Cup, the women's Davis equivalent. Pressed to offer advice and counsel, since he has been in Czechoslovakia far more recently, Lendl considered the matter solemnly before responding "I would tell her to stay away from the dumplings." Navratilova and Evert Lloyd made their usual voracious work of the dumplings last week, though Dominican-born Mary Joe Fernandez, the latest model in a Florida baseliner, made a bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Going, Going, Gone At Wimbledon | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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