Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they will take it in stride. Television news knows its power. It has come a long way since the days when pencil journalists demonstrated their contempt for their upstart rival by carrying clackers to news events to foul up sound tapes and by unplugging the cables of the TV equipment...
Then came Drabowsky, who struck out Wes Parker, walked Junior Gilliam, and forced John Roseboro to foul out to retire the side. In the fourth and fifth innings, Drabowsky struck out the side, thus tying a 47-year old record of Cincinnati's Hod Eller, who struck out six straight batters in the 1919 World Series against the Chicago White...
...Dead! Tony Randall whirls just in time to see a chap fall out of a closet. The chap lies very still, and Tony notices a large dagger stuck between his shoulder blades. Eyes narrowed, Tony thinks fast, then offers his analysis of the situation: "There's been some foul play...
...where Joyce Kilmer is said to have written his verses praising trees, a leading botanist last week blamed them for their role in one of civilization's greatest concerns: air pollution. At a biometeorological conference at Rutgers, University of Nevada Professor Frits Went stated flatly that trees foul the air with ten times more pollutants than all of man's fires, factories and vehicles...
Investigators strongly suspect that the tic is neurotic in origin, related to the venting of aggression. Beginning in children as muscular twitches, the La Tourette syndrome gradually progresses to grunts and finally foul shouting. Doctors have tried everything from psychotherapy to sedatives and carbon dioxide inhalation, which is akin to a form of shock therapy. Lasting cures have proved as rare as the disease, but Psychologist David F. Clark now reports in the British Journal of Psychiatry that the treatment is contained in the symptoms...