Word: foul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierre Monteux, French-born conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, was seeing through a beefsteak, darkly. While watching his first baseball game in Hancock, Me. he was bopped in the eye by a foul ball. But along with the shiner he acquired wisdom: "Now I understand why baseball is so popular. Even when you only watch it, you are part of the game...
...power. In the upper brackets there is a feeling that it's not good form for other countries to see England on deshabille, that the Government is deliberately envisioning a rather crude workers' commonwealth, and that pity from America is distasteful. (Americans, it's true, can be pretty foul when they start pitying "foreigners"). But the cold facts remain: goods are short in Britain, life is uncomfortable, and a great deal of work has to be done. The sober job of reconstruction, which a wide-eyed traveller from America cannot but admire longingly, causes a basic paradox in feeling among...
...strikes. Said Howard: "Guild members have widely attacked the integrity and public intentions of the newspaper [in a strike] as a newspaper, and not as an employer. . . . A newspaper's good name with the public is something like a woman's reputation for chastity. You can foul our particular nest with lasting effect." One delegate called Howard's speech "an insulting attack on working newspapermen...
...Queen demanded a set of false teeth-black, because she chewed betel. But when he commanded her to "open the royal mouth" she refused, finally consented with the understanding that he would not raise his head above her own. Crouching, the young Dane maneuvered his tools into the "foul interior" of her mouth, stood clear while she spat betel juice into a golden spittoon. When it was over, she asked him about his love affairs. He replied by recounting some imaginary infatuations which delighted the Queen as much as her new teeth...
...Hindu milkman in Bombay thought of moving his 68-year-old father from the Lahore district (which will go to Pakistan). "We own half a dozen cows and bullocks and three-quarters of an acre of land. My father would hate to leave our village and breathe the foul air of Bombay. I, my wife and five children are sharing a one-room apartment with another couple with three children. How can I accommodate my father? But I must bring him down. I cannot abandon him to Pakistan...