Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, while the weather lay thick and foul over the Norwegian coast, the control tower at Oslo airport received a garbled message from the DC-3's pilot. Forty-two hours later, after searching parties had scoured the countryside in vain, a lumberjack walking near Oslo Fjord heard the thin cry of a child. He found the wreckage of the DC-3; sitting primly in his seat in the plane's tail, his safety belt fastened, rain-soaked and spattered with oil, was Isaac Allal...
However, the winners were never pressed and they had the game well in hand by the time Tufts tried to muster a late rally. This was largely because, in addition to outscoring the visitors from the floor, (not from scrimmage, but from the foul line), Harvard had the superior defense...
There was more than one encouraging aspect of Harvard's showing. This year's team, even in its first game, made a tremendous improvement over last year's as far as foul and set shooting percentages go. It made 24 baskets in 73 attempts from scrimmage--or 33 per cent, generally considered above average...
...aero mechanics, however, proved surprisingly indigestible. They called off their strike and set out to fight Beck with billboard displays, radio programs and full-page newspaper advertisements. They described Beck's newly founded local at Boeing as the "foul-hatched, illegitimate offspring of a power-crazed dictator . . ." They also had the impertinence to use heavy-handed humor in bearding the heavy-handed czar. One ad featured a drawing of an old-fashioned privy which was entitled the "Beckhouse." Another pleaded: "Don't go Beckward...
Operating day & night for more than 15 months, in fair weather and foul, U.S; and British pilots had flown 277,264 trips, shuttled 2,343,301 ½ tons of fuel and food into the old German capital. The airlift had taken the lives of 31 U.S. airmen, 39 British and seven German civilians. By the time it finally shut down last week most of the original airmen had long since been transferred home, crammed with the invaluable lessons of the largest air freight operation in history...