Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bunt eluded the Judges' catcher. Seemingly ashamed of his puny safety, Gilmor helted a 375-foot shot over the left fielder's head for a homer in the eighth, and singled to center in the ninth. He preceded the single with another home run shot to left that curved foul at the last moment...
Norman, the new Lion pitcher, struck out Gavin Gilmore and Tom Boone, but then walked both Drummey and Rodgers Morse singled to load the bases and the stage was set for Martin. The varsity captain smacked a long drive down the left field line--but it was foul by a foot. When Martin grounded out on the next pitch the game was over...
Relations between Brown students and police were strained two weeks ago when policemen, called to a nearby restaurant about midnight, were the target of jeers and some beer cans tossed by students. Students said that police used foul language and needless roughness in investigating the trouble...
...sententious and drunken father. James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork. Yet by some miracle-or rather two of them -the grown man manages to present not a foul autopsy on his dead life but a gay ballad at his own wake...
...less so for all the refinements and efficiencies that the Administration may graft upon it. It makes no significant difference if University Hall devises better tests: the program will continue, while pretending to climinate the Freshman year, simply to meddle with the Sophomore year, and in effect to foul up both...