Word: foul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis rose majestically and rumbled: "He called me a foul name...
...section editor long enough for me to whisper something in their shell-pink ears. The reproduction of Knight's Farmhouse Gossip is a very poor copy of an original painting called A Secret. . . . The original was photographic in style and a hell of a lot better than the foul copy "originated" by Mr. Knight...
Bumbling British officials did their best to foul up the coverage. They issued conflicting orders, misinformed the press about arrival times of the ships, and herded reporters and photographers into wire cages away from the gangplanks. (They were afraid, they said, that if the Jews saw a lot of newspaper people around they would feel encouraged to get violent.) The 15 photographers, assigned to an impossible spot from which to shoot, told P.R.O.s that they might as well bar all cameras. So their cameras were barred, and a British Army photographer was the only one allowed to take pictures...
Bare Protest. The fanatical Sons of Freedom broke away in the early 1900s from Canada's Doukhobor colony, claiming that they alone were faithful to the old Doukhobor teachings.* They became best known for their peculiar means of public protest: stripping to the buff in fair weather and foul. Religious pacifists, they refused during the war to serve even in conscientious objectors' camps. They recently concluded that a third world war was imminent, that to avoid it they must somehow placate divine anger. They also brooded enviously about the prosperity of orthodox Doukhobors. Soon, armed with gasoline tins...
...Side had three Prohibition-style street-shootings in two days, and one victim spoke in a manner worthy of radio's "Gangbusters" before cashing in his chips. When the hated cops asked him his name, he said: "Joe Bananas, the second." When they asked who had done the foul deed, he responded: "Me mother...