Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team was towering (6 ft., 8 in.) Center Ed Macauley. He has a deadly eye and a soft southpaw shot that helped him pile up 395 points last season. His teammates, with some reason, call him Easy Ed. Once, when he was gauging the hoop on a crucial foul shot, an opponent tried to throw him off by yelling, "Hey, Ed, your shoe's untied." Without taking his eye from the basket, Macauley drawled: "You tie it for me, Junior, while I make this point." Then he dropped the ball neatly through the hoop to win the game...
Paced by Ed Smith's 17 points, the freshmen had little trouble racking up their fifth win as the shorter, slower Milton quintet scored half its points from the foul line...
Many hand-me-down textbooks are so foul-smelling that children refuse to use them. One school has texts for only one out of three students. Long-outdated books put New York City's population at 4,000,000 (actual population: 9,000,000). Critics say that the city needs 10,000 more teachers, 9,000 new school rooms, about 50 more assistant superintendents, more contact between parents and teachers. Estimated cost to modernize the city's schools: $140 million...
...greatest inroads have been made upon the integrity of the players; for the present generation anything goes. Pinball is now but one part skill and two parts subterfuge. Three notorious methods of foul play are the Chicago system, the Toledo jam, and the Oklahoma ride...
Transfer Rules Foul McCurdy...