Word: foul
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...still live below the country's poverty line. Cholera and malaria are rife, and child mortality rates are among the worst in the world. A kilometer away from Nova Vida, in the shanty town of Cambamba, children play in open sewers, and piles of burning garbage shroud shacks in foul-smelling clouds of smoke. As Valdemir puts it: "The rich use mineral water. For us there is no water. No electricity or sanitation either...
...Risk” began at the start of reading period on Sunday, May 6. Moves took effect three times each day—at noon, 5 p.m., and midnight—after which armies and territories were gained and lost. During the course of the game, numerous accusations of foul play were made. Allegations included spies on House open lists, fake accounts, bribes to encourage participation, and stolen passwords. Goldenberg, who is also a Crimson columnist and member of the editorial staff, said that the CEB received roughly 30 e-mails every hour with complaints, comments, and praise. The board...
...rarely left his desk, but he made Tintin a world traveler, meeting cultures that his creator encountered only in books and magazines. Over the course of the books (Hergé would call them albums), Tintin acquired a panoply of colorful companions: his faithful dog Snowy; his hard-drinking, foul-mouthed friend Captain Haddock; egghead Professor Calculus; bumbling detectives the Thompson Twins; and overbearing opera diva Bianca Castafiore...
...this the only negative thing about Hollywood movies? Smoking is the least of the problems. What about all the graphic sex, violence, consumption of booze and drugs, and use of foul language? Our kids see those behaviors and imitate them. So why worry only about the smoking? I would rather see the smoking and get rid of the rest of the filth. John Gleason, Grand Rapids, Michigan...
...Game 2 of the series, Bennett Salvatore hit Golden State star point guard Baron Davis with a technical foul for a similarly mild offense. It was his second tech of the game, so Davis was also ejected. Last Thursday Dick Bevetta, a 32-year league veteran, rushed across the court to call a tech on Houston Rockets forward Juwan Howard in Game 6 of the Rockets-Jazz series. This call was particularly confounding since Utah's Mehmet Okur, not Howard, had instigated a mini-scuffle after the Houston forward committed a tough, but not intentional, foul. Last weekend, referee...