Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With its foul barracks language, its uninhibited love scenes and its overall air of don't give a damn, The Blue Hussars is sure to repel a lot of readers. What it offers as a reward is Author Nimier's talent for keeping people and action alive...
They looked unbelieving. "Expect they'll send someone to foul up the presses again. They did that once. Sent a little boy in an old trenchcoat who claimed he was from some prep school. Only catch was, heh heh, one of our men know him. By God, I'n in no mood for such foolishness. If a CRIMSON editor shows up, by God, I'll bash his head in right against the presses...
...rewritten it for the screen. However, it is no more than expertise. Playwright-Actress Gordon is too cool a professional ever to let sentiment interfere with business, which in this instance, when she is writing about her own girlhood, means that a true feeling is never allowed to foul up a good line. Nevertheless, The Actress offers an unusually pleasant evening at the movies...
...navigate (TIME, June 15). But only the most accurate observations can tell pilots when it is safe to grope through mist toward the ground. In their dangerous flights over Long Island, Rube Snodgrass and his crew, measuring those last few feet of weather, are setting new standards for tricky, foul-weather landings...
...tattooist is almost a fairy-tale figure, hovering in his gloomy, weirdly decorated and mysterious little shop like some grotesque but bewitching hermit ..." But since World War I, tattooing has steadily declined. It is too conservative, for one thing, holding to such dull, outmoded motifs as Mickey Mouse, foul anchors, and bathing belles of yesteryear. Ebensten laments: "No atom bomb explodes on any lusty chest...