Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russell was shooting at his best (7 for 19 from the floor, 8 for 8 from the foul line), and he out-rebounded Chamberlain 35 to 28. Chamberlain was tense and annoyed with himself for shooting poorly. He took 38 shots from the floor, sank only 12, and missed often from the foul line (6 for 12). But Russell, rated the game's greatest defensive player, could not keep Rookie Chamberlain from ending the evening as the game's high scorer with 30 points...
...Citroëns and four bodies long exposed to the sun-the young guide, the two Americans and one of the Frenchmen. Officials could only guess that the other had either struck out on his own or had died even before his companions. There was no evidence of foul play. An autopsy concluded that the young men had died of thirst and sunstroke...
...moral obligation; they had a job, and they tried to do it competently. With an irreverent sneer at their proper predecessors, they succeeded and survived because they were tough, not because they were notably intelligent. Things happened to them: they faced pistols, boredom, and bad stomachs from too many foul meals eaten on the run. Hammett's Sam Spade soon found an acceptable running mate in Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe who would tell the girls: "The first time we met, I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work...
...blame could be put on the horrendous playing conditions of the Los Angeles Coliseum, a converted football stadium that permitted the biggest crowds in World Series history (277,750 in three games) but nearly ruined both teams in the process. The cozy screen in leftfield (251 ft. at the foul line) clanged like a Chinese gong under the impact of balls that would have been easy outs in other parks. On occasion, outfielders staggered about mazily as flies descended out of the sun. Batters strained to pick out the ball from the backdrop of shirtsleeved bleacherites in centerfield...
After Nikita Khrushchev's headline-hogging trip to the U.S., the visit last week from Italy's Prime Minister Antonio Segni was bound to be recorded on the inside pages. Indeed, Premier Segni was near to getting lost himself. Foul weather forced his Alitalia airliner into Boston, and U.S. protocol officers had to scoot up from Washington to pick him up and fly him back. When he finally got to Washington, the weather was so bad that the welcoming ceremonies-honor guard, music and all-had to be held in a hangar at the MATS terminal. Moreover...