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Word: foul (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second leading scorer last Saturday. He is averaging 21.2 points a game, and has sunk 50.4 per cent of his field goal attempts this year. Neuman, who has a 14.9 point average, is the slickest ball handler in the League and one of the country's best collegiate foul shooters...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Slumping Crimson Basketball Team Meets Penn and Princeton in IAB This Weekend | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

Watchers & Watcher-Watchers. The voting took place in union halls across the U.S.; ballots were hand-marked and handcounted. There were poll watchers and watchers who watched the poll watchers. As the counting continued, there were claims of foul from both sides. The 3,000 Steelworkers of Puerto Rico, for example, complained that the bundle they had expected to contain ballots brought only campaign propaganda mailed from Abel's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Trouble Ahead | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

Harvard started out red hot, scoring its first four field goal attempts, and looked as if that enervating train ride hadn't had the slightest effect. After three minutes the score was tied 10-10, when Bradley swished a foul shot to put the Tigers in front. Then the roof fell in on Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sedlacek Outscores Bradley by 1, But Tigers Crush Crimson, 76-55 | 2/13/1965 | See Source »

Harvard had one abortive little scoring outburst early in the second half before Princeton sewed the game up. In a three-minute span Sedlacek hit two 20-foot jumpers; Merle McClung sank a fall-away jumper; Barry Williams swished a foul shot; and Al Bornheimer scored on a long bomb, making the score a respectable 41-31. But in the next three minutes the Crimson, ruffled by a Tiger press, committed six ball-handling errors. Princeton quickly pulled in front 51-33, and after that the game degenerated into a sloppy, foul-plagued rout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sedlacek Outscores Bradley by 1, But Tigers Crush Crimson, 76-55 | 2/13/1965 | See Source »

...writings of one incredibly durable historian: Flavius Josephus. Only the New Testament and a few other fragments deal with the period 100 B.C.-A.D. 100; yet posterity has not thanked Josephus for his labors. One writer recently accused him of "cowardice, duplicity, treason, arrogance, deviousness, horrifying brutality and foul deception"; and historians have agreed that he was at least a traitor to the Jewish people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Survivor | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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