Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article about sin & Sweden. To say that Mrs. Ottesen-Jensen's views on sex relations are typically Swedish is wrong; to let a 19-year-old boy, as a final note on Swedish manners, declare that he would never marry a girl because he made her pregnant is foul...
...means, and you'll have fun." One afternoon last week, Alf gave the clubhouse punters three successive winners: Elladora, a 6-to-1 shot; Grand Statute, a 10-to-1 surprise; and Running Water, a 3-to-1 stake racer that survived a tough stretch battle and a foul claim to take the purse. A ?1 ($2.80) parlay on the three paid $862.40. It was almost too much for one conservative gentleman. "From now on," said he, as he tried to revive himself in the bar, "I'm in favor of coexistence...
...seven-game limit, but the red-hot Red Wings skated off with the cup and the world championship. ¶ While Bowie's horse players broiled under the Baltimore sun, stewards studied movies of the Governor's Gold Cup race, decided that Boston Doge had committed no foul, gave the unkempt little sprinter his tenth straight victory. ¶Even Coach "Rusty"Callow figures that Navy's long-unbeaten crew (three years, 30 races and the 1952 Olympic championship) is stroking toward disaster. But the Middies, who have lost six veterans from their varsity eight, postponed the inevitable, outrowed...
...center for the first time this season, as Bill Cleary moved to shortstop bolstering the infield, led off with a single. After an out, George Anderson subbed for pitcher Bob Kessler and walked. Hoffman followed with his second straight hit, loading the bases. Simourian then slapped a long foul drive down the right field line; the right fielder must have thought that it was fair, for he caught it, allowing the tying run to score and the other runners to move up after the catch. butters again ended the rally...
...Neely's speech guttered out, the autoworkers gave him a standing ovation. Around the country an angry cry of "foul" rose from editorial pages, rectories and forums. Said the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, pastor of the President's church: "The religious life of the President is so transparently sincere as to be self-validating." Even low-hitting Senator Joe McCarthy was appalled. "I had thought the day had passed," he said, "when a public servant could be held politically accountable for worshiping God as his conscience directed...