Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Millar has also managed to foul up the pace of The Affair. One of the most impressive elements of any Snow novel is its slow, heavy, deliberative--almost inexorable--progress: each move, when it comes, seems inevitable, and there are seldom any false steps. In the play, though, everything happens at once. Tempers flare, men change sides and jump around the Common Room with the speed and effectiveness of Harold Lloyd. Again, of course, the novel's deliberate speed would admittedly have been deathly on the stage, so Millar had to do something; but, again, too, Millar's answer...
Quarterback Mike Bassett and his friends went to work. Calling his plays with precision, Bassett directed Grana, Scott Harshbarger, Bill Taylor, and himself into the thin Lehigh line for large chunks of yardage. A pass to Taylor added 16 yards, and a Lehigh personal foul penalty put the ball...
...plants are as useless, ugly and loathsome as the creeping puncture weed that straggles haphazardly across most of the western U.S. The puncture weed's burrlike seeds can flatten bicycle tires, foul up cotton-picking machinery, rip through horsehide and gouge cattle. Humans get stabbed by the burrs when they garden, walk barefoot or when they pitch in to a harvest. Even the puncture weed's scientific name, Tribulus terrestris-"earthly bed of spikes," takes account of the tribulations it causes...
...team, including a Jesuit priest-psychologist, and recruited 30 young toughs with police records ranging from burglary to rape−"tomorrow's nothings," as one boy put it. Slack lured them with cash: 50? to $2 an hour for being "research consultants" in a study of "how guys foul up." "Sick, Man, Sick." The chance to unburden themselves on tape−and then listen to the playback−worked as well as analysis. Usually, says Slack, the boys passed through five stages: apathy, anger, despair, insight, transformation...
...Prince." One of Powers' great attractions for Baseball Fan John Kennedy is his encyclopedic memory for baseball statistics. Last week Powers accompanied Kennedy to the All-Star game, was readily identifiable in the pictures that showed a foul ball landing near the presidential box. Reporting a game some months ago, a newspaper erroneously said that Powers had ducked a foul. The gang at the Horseshoe Tavern indignantly formed a "We Know Dave Powers Didn't Flinch Club," signed up 200 members...