Word: foul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...angry official report, which described Mobutu's regime as a "usurpation of political powers" and blamed much of the Congo's current troubles on Belgium, whose agents, said the report, were flocking back in to "exclude or obstruct" the U.N. itself. Promptly, the Belgians screamed "foul," hinted that Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny himself would fly over from Brussels to reply during this week's General Assembly debate. Then Hammarskjold got word that even the U.S. was upset at the report. "We have every confidence in the good faith of Belgium and its desire to be of assistance...
...brilliant play call. A poor punt by Bruce McIntyre gave Princeton the ball on the Harvard 48, and a Hugh Scott to Barry Schuman pass moved it to the 28. Two plays first lost and then regained nine yards, but on an incomplete third down pass, the Crimson personal foul (now a regular part of the opposition's offensive strategy) gave the Tigers a first down...
...laboratory the boys were given a of chores. They were paid to make repairs hold discussions, to keep a record of their activities, and even to write several paragraphs like "Why Kids Foul Up." One 17- wrote, "Because they do not have some of things they want and there is no way to them except to steal and you still do not what you want by stealing them." According a 19-year-old, "Quite frequently kids get stealing cars, so, for my first reason on why foul up, I shall say, for kicks. Most kids up because of ignorance...
...fulsomely that President Eisenhower had restored dignity to the presidency ("I see mothers holding their babies up so that they can see a man who might be President of the United States"), and most newsmen were reminded of the Checkers speech. When the debate was over, Nixon called a foul because Kennedy had used notes-contrary to their oral agreement, he said-and Kennedy blandly said he had just wanted to be certain not to misquote the President...
...plans to spend $1,800,000 on a duplicate instrument-landing system at McMurdo Sound. The present system works well enough, but if electronic gremlins were to put it out of action in foul weather, airplanes heading in from New Zealand would be in a bad way with no place to land and no possibility of getting back to their starting point. "It's expensive," says Admiral Tyree of the duplication, "but what's money against lives...