Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the foul-ups in his own party, Harry Truman had time to pay his respects to the Republicans. The occasion, in his busy week, was another "open house'' for Democratic congressional candidates, who arrived in Washington clucking nervously about the Wallace fiasco. Mr. Truman met them in his office...
...Crimson's final bid to break the B. U. jinx was in the sixth inning. Bob Feloney poked a hard line drive to the Terrier second sacker after Bill Weeks had walked. Crawford Hubbell walked, and then Bill Hamlen laced out a scorching double along the third base foul line scoring Weeks...
...light signal for a foul flashed on the tote board. By all the rules involving dogfights, it should have been declared no race and rerun later. The crowd of 26,000 expected just that. Instead the judges announced Rossmir Biddy as the winner...
...Town's slums have no electricity, running water or sewage. Once a day street cleaners climb up & down Castello de Sao Jorge hill, where generations of shuffling bare feet have polished the cobbles satin-smooth. An hour after the cleaners have passed, the same steep, crooked passages are foul with refuse...
...gaiety and polish, unique in modern English writing, of A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited. To judge by Brideshead, at any rate, Evelyn Waugh may sense a similarity between his mission as a writer of comedy and Campion's as a priest: "to crie alarme spiritual against foul vice and proud ignorance, wherewith many my dear Countrymen are abused...