Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...described the Midwest as "fat as a hog and so fertile you felt that if you stuck a fork in the earth the juice would spurt." Brooklyn was a "vast sprawl upon the face of the earth, which no man alive or dead has yet seen in its foul, dismal entirety...
...discover the two bodies. That raised the question of why there had been no earlier investigations into the disappearance of Mazurkiewicz' victims. With considerable embarrassment, the Communists admitted that so many people had been snatched away by the secret police that it never occurred to anyone to suspect foul play by private enterprise...
...hazard. But for three days fog had covered the sea from Newfoundland's banks down to Nantucket. The view from a ship's bridge was scarcely farther than the bow. Radar sets searched the seas ahead, but longtime masters with tight schedules reduced speed only slightly for foul weather...
Saltwater skippers like to downgrade the 333-mile Chicago-to-Mackinac Island sailing race; Lake Michigan's waters are troubled with no tidal rips, no tide-fouled soundings to try the seamanship of the racing yachtsman. Still, the "world's longest race on drinking water" is no pleasure cruise for landlubbers; it has hazards enough of its own. Foul weather makes up out of nowhere, fog abounds, squalls are sharp and sudden. By playing those unpredictable elements shrewdly last week, Nicholas J. Geib, 39, a manufacturer of musical-instrument cases, brought home his nimble 39-ft. yawl Fleetwood...
...book, Eisenhower: The Inside Story (TIME, July 2). Many a newspaper reader rushed to get it because most of the U.S. press, apparently confused over the release date, lagged in reporting Donovan's fresh material. Among the most avid: Democratic Congressmen, who promptly began to cry "foul...