Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really expects foul shots to be made in a "B" league House basketball game. So no one was surprised when the gangling senior with the over-sized gym pants missed his foul shot. But when Jerry Blitz, fullback turned basketball referee, handed the ball to the kid for a second shot--everyone, particularly the senior, was surprised...
...penalty came when Lowell inside, Steele Comager, headed the ball at Bunny fullback Paul Gherighe. The ball hit Gherighe on the left arm, just as time ran out, but referee Pete Briggs called a foul and Stan Loeb took the shot. Leverett goalie Bob Roseman never had a chance as Loeb shot close to the post for the deciding score...
...Seven Year Itch found the rainbow somewhere. Elliott Nugent and Courtney Burr tossed together some foul gags and spicy acting and came out with an unexplicably funny production, now at the Wilbur...
Operation Mainbrace, the NATO sea exercise (TIME, Sept. 22), ran into foul weather off the Norwegian coast last week. The allied fleets broke off operations in the north, headed south into Kiel Bay to interdict a simulated enemy attack across the Kiel Canal into Denmark. Since the east end of the canal is only 40 miles from the East German frontier, Mainbrace's planes were unarmed and the pilots were sternly warned to avoid Soviet territory...
...game: Spanish Outfielder Antonio Casals' seventh-inning fuori di campo (home run). He was no Joe DiMaggio: his modest drive down the right-field line was called "fair" by the umpire, but Italy's rightfielder, disregarding the decision, decided on his own that the ball was foul and disdained to chase...