Word: foul
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After managing just two hits through the first six frames, the Crimson connected for two in its first three at-bats if the seventh. The inning produced two runs and the ninth produced two more, but a controversial call, an even more controversial non-call and a barely foul ball prevented the mini-uprising from developing into anything greater...
...escalation normally starts with a hard foul or an overly aggressive pick, but before you know it, elbows are being thrown, sisters’ are being sullied and the whole game has turned into a frothing pot of latent frustration. After an innocuous comment of mine, made during a Cabot-Quincy IM basketball semifinal game, was misconstrued as a fat joke, the rest of the game turned into a cacophony of cheap shots and trash talk, which carried over into a post-game clash of threats...
...long, America has gullibly believed that Arafat would defeat them; that if treated as a partner in peace, he would save Palestinian society from the foul few who corrupt their compatriots’ hopes like a parasitic blight. Instead of condemning them, he has encouraged them; and they continue sending the sons of Palestine to kill...
...website, residents can sound off on a discussion board about Harvard—so long as they don’t use swear words. The board’s moderator recently removed one post with foul language...
Summer 2000: I meet three foul-mouthed men in a bar in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. They are the most muscular and tattooed individuals in recent history. Of course, they emerge as former members of the U.S. Air Force and the Marines. After drinking copious Cusqueñas, they divulge information regarding their work with the U.S. Geological Survey, mapping the topography of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. Later, it occurs to me that operatives of the CIA often work in a three-person group with a native guide and a small plane. “Well,” I think...