Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the November action the Ticonderoga planes helped litter Manila harbor with sunken Jap ships. In December, when I was aboard, the Third Fleet mostly ran into foul weather, but the carrier planes, including those from the Ticonderoga, left about 450 Jap planes wrecked on the air fields of Luzon, and others on Formosa, according to Halsey's reports...
Transferred to the household of the Privy Councilor Menshikov, Marta soon became "a part of the gay, foul pageant of the Muscovite demimonde." She endured with patience Menshikov's orgiastic embraces and downed her vodka with his roistering friends, glass for glass, without losing a shred of dignity. She could sit placidly through wild banquets where the big joke of the evening might be a string of boiled mice slyly hidden in the cabbage soup, a trick that made some of the revelers vomit on the floor-"which capped the joke though it made things slightly unsanitary...
...After Mussolini and his mistress were killed: "Hand joined to hand and face to face; In noisome, pestilent embrace. So trickling down with foul decay, They wore their lingering lives away"-Virgil's Aeneid...
Pete Reilly is a natural-born innovator. He developed boxing champions Jack Delaney and Bat Battalino, became famed as the originator of the hot foot. Last week, with the atmosphere at many a ringside foul with monkey business (investigations were under way in California, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia), silver-haired Pete brought his fresh air with...
...lanes heaved and quaked to underground explosions. The Germans, driven from the streets, had carried their final fighting to the subways, and the Russians blasted and burned them out. The Germans had burrowed into the sewers to get behind the attackers, and Russian sappers went systematically about the foul business of blowing out great sections. Avalanches of stone thundered into the lanes and blocked them...