Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitors began the final 20 minutes by increasing their margin to 12 points but Hasting's three lay-ups (one on a steal) and foul brought the home team to within four. An Amherst foul shot broke the string, and then Hastings' eight and ninth straight points, two free throws by Dick Hurley and lay-ups by Bob Bowman and Canty gave the varsity the edge...
...talent, Bear Bryant drives himself as hard as he ever drives his players. He had hardly hit Texas early last year, a refugee from the high-pressure Kentucky basketball barony of Adolph Rupp, when he put on a recruiting drive that started other Southwest Conference coaches screaming: "Foul!" Conference officials promptly blew the whistle on Bear's overenthusiastic salesmanship and set the Aggies back with a stiff penalty: two years' probation and orders not to appear in any bowl games...
...leading jockey, turned in one of the season's flashiest performances on Maryland's Laurel race track. In an eight-race program, Willie booted home six winners, including Rhy Dress, which galloped home second in the $12,816 Maryland Futurity but was awarded first on a foul...
Annex girls, as a rule, rarely go to another college for a weekend. For the most part, they are content to stay at Harvard and cheer for the College football team, unless they are in a particularly foul humor or madly in love with some Yale student. Anyway, as one girl said, the average Cliffdweller is basically much too lazy to pack up and take off for a whole weekend. The so-called unfeminine aspects of Radcliffe girls--green book bags and Knee socks, for instance--are actually a defense mechanism against the strain of looking beautiful all the time...
...Scottish cavalier, you may have to restrain your more glorious impulses." Since glory is box office, Taylor is in trouble. Things come to a head one night when "The Spider King" (Robert Morley), as history knows him, sits spinning his political web. "We are about to embark on a foul venture," he murmurs to a cackling familiar. "Foul and necessary, fit only for gypsies-and kings." The venture involves the betrayal of a lady fair (Kay Kendall) to a villain dark (Duncan Lament), and incidentally the death of Durward, her armed escort. However, when the sinister birds pounce on their...