Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When word of Youngdahl's appointment got out, Stassen cried foul: "A typical Truman trick." The advantages to Truman, Humphrey & Co. were clear, but why had Youngdahl accepted? He tried to explain to reporters: "The emotional and physical strain of holding the position as chief executive of a great state . . ." but he said it more plainly when a newsman wondered whether to address him as governor or judge. Said 55-year-old Luther Youngdahl: "I've had both titles. Judge sounds pretty good to me-and it lasts longer...
...Communists gave the pledge. But they suggested that the U.N. negotiators travel in jeeps whether the weather was fair or foul. The implication was that the helicopters might be fired on by mistake. It was also possible that the Communists, who had no 'copters, were jealous of such a stylish mode of travel, and that even in this minor matter they wanted to save face. In any case, Matt Ridgway stuck to his decision: it would be helicopters, he told the Reds...
...Yong of the South Korean army. There were two pilots and a copilot, a mechanic, two interpreters, an Eighth Army photographer. No allied newsman went to Kaesong. A large throng of U.S. and other U.N. reporters were left behind at Munsan. If the negotiators ran into foul play (which was not seriously expected), allied ground forces around Munsan were ready to smash forward...
Arriving in Berlin on his triumphal tour of Europe, Middleweight Boxing Champion Sugar Ray Robinson (TIME, June 25) ran into some peculiar local customs. In the first round of an exhibition match, he floored Germany's Gerhard Hecht, who promptly claimed that he had been fouled. When Robinson protested, the referee explained that a kidney punch is illegal in Germany, adding: "I have to call it a foul. I want to leave the ring alive." When Robinson flattened Hecht again, after an impromptu, one-minute rest period, he soon found out what the referee meant-and learned a little...
...trouble came in the final seconds of the tournament, as the scrappy Czechs tied the score at 44 apiece. Russia sank a foul shot, but the nervous player teetered forward across the line. The Czechs called a footfault. The Russians howled "Niet!" The officials first decided that the foul shot counted, then reversed themselves and called for an overtime period, backtracked again and gave the shot and the game to the Russians, amid the ringing boos of the crowd. Final score...