Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...castle stands deep within the Ardennes Forest, and in it dwells an aging nobleman who broods over his ancient lineage, his child-wife, and his priceless art collection. It is also occupied by the 314th Replacement Cadre, a foul-spoken band of American fighting boon-dogglers, including a cowboy, an Indian, a composer, a Negro intellectual, an art historian and an ex-preacher. The cadre is commanded by a sex-and-glory-hungry major. It is December 1944, the Germans are preparing to launch the Battle of the Bulge, and the castle bars the road to Bastogne...
...mistakes that beat Princeton weren't at all fantastical. No rebounding, spotty defense, foul trouble for Bill Bradley--all these damned the Tigers and ruined their chances to reach the NCAA championship finals tonight...
With six minutes to go in the half, Michigan ground its way into a 29-26 lead. Ominously, Bradley had collected his third personal foul, a charging violation...
...second half began, Michigan pulled inexorably ahead. Bradley was called for pushing Darden, a crippling fourth personal foul. Though Walters suddenly went beserk, scoring four straight baskets, beautiful work under the basket by Russell, Buntin, Tergoning, and Darden kept Princeton at a stable seven-point disadvantage. With Michigan leading 57-50. Brown fouled out, and the Wolverines ruled the boards almost without challenge...
...sealed Gemini capsule atop a fully fueled Titan II rocket while launching personnel put the spacecraft through a mock countdown. And there they lay for 2 hr. 54 min., while the booster's second stage leaked fuel, a computer went haywire, and enough other foul-ups developed to scrub a real shot. But that's what practices are for, said NASA, holding to its projected launch date of March 22 for the first U.S. two-man mission in space...