Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beastly work. Off Cape Cod, the Atlantic is a battleground for the warm Gulf Stream and the cold Labrador Current, and the weather veers from dim to foul. Strong subsurface currents swirl at unknown depths below. But the crew of Atlantis was both skilled and lucky; photos taken a half-mile north of Contact Delta showed a string of debris on the bottom. The pictures picked out hundreds of pieces of twisted metal, a shredded copper cable, a half-pint milk carton standing peacefully right side up, and a white Navy coffee mug lying on its side. Nothing...
...believe it," mumbled Jones as he climbed out of his car. In winning, he had averaged better than 143 m.p.h. for 500 brutal miles-breaking the 1962 record by nearly 3 m.p.h. But he barely had time for a victory kiss before his competitors were hollering foul. "Don't use my name," said one, "because they'd never let me come back here again. But it was a dirty, cheating victory. There was oil all over that goddam track." "I had to wipe the oil off my goggles every time I came down the straightaway," complained McCluskey, tossing...
...earth. But even before the first rocket of the Air Force Project West Ford blasted off its pad, the protests of outraged scientists soared into orbit. Metal wires, the world's astronomers warned, would also reflect sunlight, fogging the photographic plates of optical telescopes. They would foul up radio astronomy by reflecting man-made radio waves and masquerading as distant stars or galaxies...
...Crimson hurler was in trouble in the second inning, but catcher Dick Diehl's diving catch of a pop foul cut off the Big Red threat. Garibaldi then hurled five solid innings before losing his shutout in the seventh...
...orchestra, however, was in fair shape under Gerald Bennet. Its intonation was foul, but it showed signs of good discipline...