Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheerful ignorance of foul regulations and poor conditioning makes House athletes the victims of their own bruising tactics. Without any clear idea of what constitutes an illegal play, teams resort to clipping rather than clean blocking, and stop a runner by useless, dangerous gang-tackles. Some system for adequate training in the fundamentals of football and a thorough explanation of the penalty regulations would cut down on the number of injuries and improve the quality of the game. However, a more explanation of the dangers inherent in a clip or rabbit punch cannot entirely clear the field of illegal plays...
...plane became a stinking chamber of horrors. Many of the passengers expected to die, waited for the plane to open up with the smash of every sledging wave. Passengers and crew grew violently seasick, vomited helplessly on themselves and each other. Exhausted children were sick, fell asleep in the foul, chilly air, woke and were sick again...
...Senator and Mrs. Taft on their campaign trek through the West (TIME, Oct. 6). The Post's sarcastic purpose: "To determine-from Senator Taft's example . . . how the average American should ration himself." Broadcaster Don Hollenbeck, referee of the weekly CBS Views the Press, promptly called a foul. Said Hollenbeck, who doesn't like Bob Taft either: "It was quite a propaganda job. . . . The purpose was ... to make Mr. Taft and his hosts out to be a bunch of hypocrites. [But] Senator Taft was on a political speaking tour. . . . Meals . . . had been prepared far in advance...
...tolerable verging on poor." Teacher appointments were based on political drag rather than merit, instructors had little incentive and virtually no leadership, and student guidance programs were unknown. Equally important, but less fundamental points concerned antiquated teaching methods, obsolete texts, the lack of adequate vocational training, hazardous, airless buildings, foul sanitary systems, poor medical facilities, and a short twenty-minute lunch period designed to develop a race of jack rabbits with east iron stomachs...
...state-paid musicians of "lack of discipline and inadequate rehearsing." But nothing had gone awry with the orchestra, only with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby, he said. The contractor had laid a bet that he could wreck a concert by tele-hypnosis...