Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anomalies that might puzzle stouter heads than the leathernecks'. Though they have been told that they are in China to disarm and repatriate Japs, they find other Japs, still armed, standing railroad guard duty alongside them. The marines' word for this is "jacfu"-joint American-Chinese foul...
...confused with other G.I. additions to the language; e.g., snafu (situation normal, all fouled up), janfu (joint Army-Navy foul-up), fubar (fouled up beyond all recognition...
...sailing koster was hardly bigger than a lifeboat; she seemed even smaller when she left the Swedish coast and beat out into the foul weather and seam-starting seas of the Skagerrak. The 16 Estonian refugees-seven men, five women, four little children-who had wedged themselves into the Erma's tiny cabin had no visas, no charts of the Atlantic, no food but potatoes, cereal, bread and canned fish. But they did not complain. After years of war and wandering, they were going to America...
...foul blow, struck by Congress in 1943, was penalized by the U.S. Court of Claims last week...
Barracks occupied by the Japs were foul. The marines rolled up their sleeves, scri-bbed, swept and disinfected. The Chinese cooperated. Mayor Chang Ting-erh broadcast orders to the citizens: "No gypping." The Red Cross took over the sturdily built German Club and made it into "the finest serviceman's club west of San Francisco...