Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impressive fighting machine. The plane can fly faster and farther than any earlier U.S. fighter-bomber and lift twice the bomb load (12,500 Ibs.). Its great strategic importance in Viet Nam was to be that its new inertial guidance and radar targeting system enables it to bomb in foul weather or fair, either by night or by day. Its arrival in force would thus mean that the U.S. could keep up its aerial bombardment of the North despite monsoon rains or heavy cloud cover...
...polish and tart viewpoint into his reviews. Of the flibbertigibbet comedy import, There's a Girl in My Soup, he observed: "Here we have the sort of English play that prevents the American theater from having a permanent inferiority com plex." Or recently, from off-Broadway If two foul-mouthed mental defectives shouting at each other is your idea of theater, there is The Beard." Of Here's Where I Belong: "As with so many recent musicals, none of the principals can really sing...
Once again the troublemaker was Rumania's Ceausescu, the rising independent who had cried foul at Russia's takeover of the Budapest conference two weeks ago and ordered his delegation home. In Sofia, he had further grievances to air, starting with the nu clear nonproliferation treaty now being negotiated in Geneva; the Rumanians think that any treaty should curb stockpiling among nuclear haves and provide tight protection for have-nots like themselves. Also, as the. only Communist there on friendly terms with West Germany and Israel, Ceausescu gave notice that he would not join in the usual attacks...
...Kanuth, Harvard's workhorse basketball forward, captured this season's "Most Valuable Player" award at the team banquet last Sunday. Center Paul Waickowski was chosen as the "Most Improved Player," and guard Jeff Grate snared the "Top Foul Shooter" crown...
Dover's twisting drive and foul shot combination put the Crimson ahead to stay, however, and Yates sealed the victory by grabbing a key rebound and converting two free throws...