Word: foul
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this point, after two weeks missing, there’s the possibility that she’s the victim of foul play,” Orange County Sheriff’s Department Spokesman Jim Amormino told The Register late last week. “It’s believed he used false pictures over the Internet to disguise himself and cover his history as a sex offender...
...example, how about a "bad-parenting surcharge." It would work like this. Suppose you come home after a hard day of work, and there is your acne-ridden, foul-smelling brat of a son--if, indeed, he is your son, which is hard to believe--playing video games with his friends. Your living room is strewn with Dorito crumbs and other detritus that doesn't bear close examining. Needless to say, the lawn has not been mowed as promised. How would you like to slug him? Or rather, how much would you like to slug him? You know you shouldn...
...Still, he added, the failure to look more closely at the rich, hard-partying Ravenel before appointing him to a prominent post in a key primary state could be a sign that Giuliani's operation is too casual for the long haul. "It's the kind of foul-up that suggests that his campaign team isn't functioning as well as it should," the G.O.P. source said. "Presidential campaigns are not the time for amateur hour...
...unfair to Bush and Cheney. They were grown men using grown men's language, as leaders have for generations. But the nebulous concept of morality is, after all, part of the social-issues glue Karl Rove has counted on to hold together the conservative base, in spite of policy foul-ups and exploding deficits. The Bush-era FCC dutifully indulged that base's outrage. Now--well, let it never be said the President has no family-values legacy...
...black and Latino drivers more often than white ones, that blacks receive longer sentences than whites for the same crimes, that black applicants for home and auto loans receive higher interest rates than whites with the same financial credentials, that white basketball referees are more likely to call a foul on a black player than a white player, and that their bias exceeds that of black referees...