Word: foul
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Voters. On the island of Sardinia, politicians, protesting "foul" electioneering in a vote on the island, accused their rivals of giving out right-foot shoes with a promise of matching left ones 'in case of victory at the polls...
William Ewart Gladstone, his more ardent admirers were to become convinced, had been sent to earth to trounce the foul Tory fiend Benjamin Disraeli, to be four times Liberal Prime Minister of Britain and, finally, to translate God's blunt, muttered injunctions into eloquent sentences of interminable length. History records William's success in all these spheres, but it bypasses his extraordinary wife. Catherine was such an attractive woman that even Queen Victoria, who came to loathe Gladstone, almost forgave her for being his wife. Every morning, when they were at their favorite country house, the Gladstones walked...
...blame the man as much as the society that produces such men. It's a society that allows sex magazines on the stands for our kids to read, a society that measures Hollywood stars by their bosoms, a society where the telling of dirty stories and using foul language is commonplace. These things produce sex perverts out of people who have the slightest abnormal tendencies. They are encouraged by everything around them. Until the day society changes its fundamental moral principles and reasserts a belief in God, we will have sex perverts...
...Lantflex I-57 (code name for the exercise) with its 19 ships set out to sea, Ike's hosts trotted out a dark-blue Mitscher-type cap and a dark-blue foul-weather jacket with "The President" stenciled in gold on the chest. Ike took up his station for hours at a time on the green-tinted, glass-windowed flag bridge of Saratoga.* With him was an all-star Government audience for whom the Navy could hoist its message. From Washington had come Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (who talks up but has seldom witnessed the military muscles...
Dartmouth tied the score in the third on two tainted runs. John Otis walked to lead off. Fred Hildebrandt then hit a foul pop which Phil Haughey dropped. Given a life, Hildebrandt singled to left, sending Otis to second. Dave Marshall then hit a ground ball to George Harrington, but it went through his legs, scoring Otis. Hildebrandt then tallied while a double play executed Marshall and Dave Anderson...