Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaches Indo-China as a French army chaplain, his religious certainties begin to waver. Riding through the crushing heat of the jungle to a front-line outpost, he passes a ruined pagoda, and is horrified by his sudden vision of his own God "dying in the grasp of the foul, green fungus, speckled with the disease of decay." At the front Colonel Lejeune, a magnificent soldier, tells him with cold insolence that he would have preferred reinforcements to a priest. The French are corroded by defeatism, many of the soldiers are themselves Communists, the colonial troops are unreliable. In this...
Whenever Columbia threatened to out the Tiger lead, Princeton surged out of reach by driving repeatedly across the foul circle for jump shots...
Grays scored first of a field goal by Mike Prichard, but Hollis went ahead on a foul shot by Humphrey Nichols, two free throws and a long push shot from the side by Bill Farnham. The losers led by as many as nine points in the first half. But Charley Currier. Dale Junta and Tony Gilbert led a surge for grays that brought the half-time score to Hollis 15, Grays...
Worcester Academy scored three foul shots in the last minute of play to defeat the freshmen basketball team, 66 to 65, yesterday in the I.A.B. Earl Jonas, a substitute forward, sank two free throws at 19:24 to break a 62-all tie. He added another foul shot ten seconds later before Tom Bernheim scored the final Crimson points on a lay-up with four seconds to play...
Worcester scored first and led 13 to 12, after eight minutes. Tom Cooney led the attack by scoring eight points. The crimson then went ahead on two foul shots by Dick Nye. Tony Massari's push shots and dick Woolaton's rebounding kept the Yardlings ahead until half-time...