Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present cheerleaders, who naturally looked forward to the Princeton and Yale games as the high points of their season, cried "foul" in violent indignation. After all, they said, they had put a good deal of practice and travelling time into the job. Now they were being fired without any previous warning, just before the two most important games of the year...
...roster of singers, and while for years it attempted more new works than it does today, most of them met with little immediate success. When it launched La Bohème (with Melba) in 1900, Henry Krehbiel, in the New York Tribune, roundly panned the new opera: "[It] is foul in subject, and fulminant but futile in its music...
...concerned, you are entitled to think what you like, however foul your thoughts; to feel what you like, however brutal and debased your emotions; to say what you like, provided you do not infringe the rights of others or imperil the Queen's peace...
...their surprise, Orwell's sponsors of the Left Book Club discovered that they had not sent a tame canary down the mine to expire obligingly while testing the foul air; they had to deal with a cornered mine rat. Having sketched his Daumier-like cartoon of misery, George Orwell turned with ruthless, cold caricature on the socialists themselves, who thought they had the answer to the inhuman conditions he had described...
...Chicago area were controlled by gangsters." The situation, he added, "cries out for remedial action, which is beyond the power of this committee. The committee trusts that responsible governmental agencies, on both the federal and state level, will follow up." That is, if they were sniffing the foul wind from Chicago...