Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were nothing but punks-callow, sullen, foul-mouthed youths. Tuberculous, bespectacled Johnny West was 22; he had a thin, bony body, a big nose, a girl's mouth, and a mind as weak and erratic as a bat's. Stocky, thick-lipped Robert Daniels was 24; there was a look of dull, animal vigor about him and he loved flashy clothes. But he had a psychopathic impulsiveness, an inability to consider consequences...
...clothing they not only will take it but also angrily shoot the owner. They snatch all clothing but what is threadbare. Some refugees save their best garments or other belongings by bundling them deep within a burlap bag full of dirty rags, including urine-soaked baby clothes. The foul smell repels the bandits...
...cried out in horror: "This man's bones should be broken in his body!" The violent paintings and portraits, with their savage slashes of color, their gnarled hands and twisted faces, didn't please the critics either. "Disgusting plague sores," one critic called them. "Puddles of foul stink." And the artist, he added, was "a mangy creature...
Actually, there were two Millers: one was a foul-mouthed exhibitionist who admitted his reputation for using "obscene language more freely and abundantly than any other living writer in the English language"; the other was an exuberant writer with a gift for describing the vividly seamy...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 7 (APE)--Five consecutive grand slam home runs, two fielder's choices, and a windblown popfly double down the center field foul line pushed across 23 CRIMSON runs in the last of the ninth inning and gave the Crimeds their usual 23-2 win Friday over several armored denizens of the Bow Street Aviary before a capacity crowd of 12,345 baffled fans in Radcliffe's Annexwam...