Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publisher at work, Poynter will be able to spend more time on his Florida daily. Says Poynter: "Our mission is to try to bring factual order out of the controversy about Congress. There is so much emotion involved that one side or the other might easily cry foul...
...special committee whose job it is to decide whether the Senate should censure McCarthy met under the chairmanship of Utah's Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins. Before it. or at least available to it, was more evidence about McCarthy than any man could read in a lifetime. Fair or foul, McCarthy's record is written plain in transcript upon tons of transcript. What might be painfully difficult is the judgment to be passed on that record. Is his conduct unbecoming a Senator...
...called the Polo Grounds beckons to the faithful all summer long. By the tens of thousands they respond. They are a special, indestructible breed called Giant fans. Unprotestingly, they submit to the nerve-jangling rites of entrance: the steaming subway ride or the stuffy taxi crawling across Harlem, the foul-tempered guards who herd them through turnstiles at the gate. Inside, the vast stands sprawl in the sun, the carefully tended ball field is green and trim, ready for the game...
...good friend Ted Williams held forth on the difficulties of baseball as compared with golf. Baseball, with a round bat and a fast-moving target, Williams explained, calls for much more skill than the quiet game of golf. "Maybe so," said Sam doubtfully. "But when we hit a foul ball, we've gotta get out there and play it." Another time, when Snead heard that Bing Crosby had just won the Academy Award, he said, "Gee, that's swell. How'd he do it-match or medal play?" After his first big splash in California, Snead...
Gordon drew two circles on paper, one marked "Body," the other "Soul." His "whole faith" consisted in believing that everything in the "Body" circle was foul and contemptible, and that only in the "Soul" circle was there "the indwelling of God." But like most people who dote on going round in circles, Gordon was always flying off at tangents...