Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoid spreading excessive cheer, Commerce-Labor pointed out that the silver cloud had a grey lining. Much of the May job increase resulted from a surge of hirings for construction projects that had been delayed by early spring's foul weather; employment in manufacturing, the economy's soft spot, actually declined again in May. And Capitol Hill's bearish Joint Economic Committee predicted last week that the economy will not get back its full pre-recession robustness until mid-1959 at the earliest, and possibly not until late...
...only for poking fun at folly but also for turning passing sorrow inside out. Standing in for Sullivan, Wayne and Shuster skittered nimbly through a confused-identity routine, belted out a metrically sound skit about a Shakespearean baseball team. Shrilled Catcher Wayne to a myopic umpire: "So fair a foul I have not seen. Accursed knave with heart as black as coat you wear upon your back! Now, for the bum thou art, stand'st thou revealed! Thy head is emptier than Ebbets Field...
Mike Schumann and pinch-hitter Ron Cheney led off with scratch singles. Then Dick Morrison, attempting to sacrifice, bunted a low, twisting pop-up down the third base line. Emmet made a head-first dive for the ball, knocking it into foul territory, and the bases were loaded. Clearly rattled by the play, the tall lefthander walked the next two batters, forcing in two Eli runs, before he was finally replaced by Byron Johnson...
...Foul, inly foul, yea foulest upon earth...
...single game, the Milwaukee Journal, which knew him as a hitless wonder when he played for the Braves, was moved to protest: "Any time O'Connell hits two home runs in one game, something's wrong. In his three and a half years here, with normal foul lines of 320 ft., he hit exactly NONE." Then the Chicago Cubs came to town. They demolished the Dodgers, 15-2, and hit four homers to the Dodgers' two. Three of the Cub homers were hit over the friendly fence by Rightfielder Lee Walls, who took all last season...