Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Live Wire. In Christchurch, New Zealand, haled into court on a charge of using foul language to a telephone operator, an angry subscriber countercharged that the girl "just laughed and laughed" after he obliged her by spelling his name: Montmorency de Villiers...
...each author). They had been libeled, said their suits, by Post Labor Columnist Murray Kempton (named a defendant along with Wechsler and three other executives), who had reviewed U.S.A. Confidential under the title "Ordure au Lait." By the title, complained Lait and Mortimer, they had been described as "foul excrement...
...H.T.A.'s spring trails. Behind the hounds, and mingling with the spectators, a score of bookies (legal in England) were grabbing up money hand over fist as they sang out the fast-changing odds. Suddenly, clambering over the rocky ground, a man appeared, dragging a foul-smelling concoction known as chemerly (rags soaked in a blend of aniseed, turpentine and urine). He was the trail-layer, the man who sets the grueling ten-mile course over rock, moor and bracken. The starter dropped his hand and the yelping hounds were...
...been Church vs. State in the Constitutional ball game and the stands have been packed. After surveying the field with a stick in its hand for a number of years, the umpire, the Supreme Court, has finally staked out the foul lines. Out in foul territory are the school-children of Champaign, Illinois. They can't get religion during school hours, when clerics invade the public schools to give it. This was the Court's decision in the Vasht--McCollom case in 1948. But safely inside the foul line, since last week, are the kids from New York...
MacDonald has been sidelined for the last three games because of a minor concussion received when a foul tip struck him on the head in practice. Completely recovered now, however, he'll be ready to play tomorrow. According to Samborski, MacDonald has just about all a coach wants from a catcher--good arm, a good receiver for the pitchers, and a good hitter...