Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having discovered this, the U.N. took the obvious course of insisting that the demarcation line would not be finally fixed until the other agenda items had been negotiated and disposed of. The Reds screamed foul; the U.N. proposal, they said, was not "in accordance with the letter of the agenda." The Red charge was true in a formal sense; item 2 should have been settled ahead of item 3. But the U.N. delegates, who consider themselves honest, hard-nosed military men and not tricky lawyers, were unmoved by the Red complaints. Said one delegate: "These people are still our enemies...
...Crimson and Tech varsity men, this brand of sailing is a rarity. They have to sail in any weather, fair or foul. Once, last year, a meet was held in wind so strong that all boats but one capsized...
...next day, White indignantly cried foul. He had given the letter to Winchell only with the understanding that Winchell would repudiate Billingsley and his "anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, antilabor, pro-snob attitude." Snapped White: he hadn...
...Press Club, Dunlap warned investigators to lay off lest the public lose confidence in its tax collectors and stop paying taxes. The time has come, said he, "when all of us ... had better draw back and think of the consequences." When this statement brought some tart comments, Dunlap cried foul. He said that his speech should not have been quoted because it was made on an "off the record'' basis...
...political pot was boiling as usual. Harold E. Stassen cried foul: "A typical Truman trick." Reason: the President appointed to the Federal bench in the District of Columbia...