Word: foul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Larry Goldsborough led the Ithacans'' fast-break attack, scoring four first-half baskets with his one-hand jump shot. six-foot-four inch Fred Eydt also did some clever outside shooting, but the man who saved Cornell's victory was Gerwin, who sank eight out of ten foul shots...
Habaneros felt that their dark, dank, dungeonlike women's jail was no place to send a good-looking girl. There were no individual cells; inmates were mainly crowded into six foul, ground-level wards, as many as 25 to the ward. Each ward had one unshielded toilet in the corner. No one was more dissatisfied with Guanabacoa, or worked harder to get a modern jail, than Director Dr. Carmelina Guanche. In 1945, the government began to build such a prison...
...Songs. As the water rose, the men floated to the top of the compartment and clung to overhead beams. The air was hot and foul. Somebody cracked: "This is one thing you can't blame on the Socialist government," and somebody laughed. Somebody started a song; the rest joined in. Afterwards, Cook Ray Fry said: "It didn't seem long, because everyone laughed and joked as if they were in the local [pub]. But you felt bad inside...
...least, it could have been. The colleges who were not caught breaking the rules voted to acquit because they hadn't been caught, or because they were just inside the foul line, or because they thought he whole business was silly. The NCAA may be fulfilling its constructional promise by establishing a uniform law of amateurism; if so, it is proceeding under a definition of "amateur" that stretches Noah Webster's reasoning to its limit...
Brown picked up the ball on a bad pass, hit with a foul, and had the ball under the varsity's basket when the automatic timer registered the end of the game. Coach Morris jumped from the Brown bench claiming a discrepancy between the timer and the Blockhouse clock, and referee Roberts ordered the ball jumped at mid-court. Gerry Murphy took the tap and dribbled until time ran out for the second time...