Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Measure of Need. At its best, the Tasman Sea is no pleasant cruising ground for yachtsmen. Crossing in autumn, Hayter ran into foul weather, saw only two days of sunshine in eleven weeks. In rough going, when he would normally have ridden out the blow hove to, he slogged ahead. He was running short of rations, had nothing but wet clothes and knew he was pitting his strength against time. He never spotted another ship. When he finally made a landfall on New Zealand's west coast near Karamea, he hoisted distress signals but no one saw them...
...intentional pass failed to pay off for Tufts in the last of the eighth when the Crimson scored its winning run. Bob Hastings walked, and after catcher Weiss made a fine catch of Fisher's foul pop, Hastings went to third on Botsford's line double to left...
...Foul and Revolting...
...crime upon which the plot of Oedipus rests is so foul and revolting that the base suggestion of it is not to be found in even the worst modern literature.... She (Harvard) it is who planned to gather from hundreds of homes all that is pure and maidenly and guileless, shut it up within her walls and subject it to this hard ordeal...
...both teams ran and shot, ran and shot; the lead changed hands almost as often as the ball. Then the Flyers ran out of gas. Louisville piled up a big lead, changed their pattern from run and shoot to shoot and stall and let the Flyers' best men foul themselves out. For the fourth time in five N.I.T. contests Dayton lost in the finals. Score...