Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skillful infighter, he dug into Claughton's past when the proxy fight began to get hot, unearthed the fact that Claughton had run foul of Georgia banking regulations, landed in prison in 1934. (He was later pardoned by Governor Eugene Talmadge.) Bluntly Sloan told his stockholders that Claughton's was not the type of management they wanted...
...saying then: "What happens after those five or seven years depends on the peace the big boys are preparing for us now. And one reason I am over here is to hold the big stick over the big boys to make damn sure they're not going to foul up the peace...
...Germany and Japan - at least for a generation - that they won't go to war again"), might make effective Ger man propaganda. The reference to the Churchill phone call might be considered too cavalier by his British hosts. And Mr. Baruch did not use language like "damn" and "foul up." Stars & Stripes obligingly cut out the offending passages - but the Associated Press had already sent Lasky's original story back...
...Emil: A foul traitor purposely failed to destroy one bridge, as he had been ordered. The half-witted and stupid Americans came across that bridge, and in cowardly manner marched around and past our brave armies. ... In order to rid our holy soil of this vermin, we made a softer peace than our heroic victories warranted...
...already serving as an advanced base for fighter bombers, is too small; the rocky Bonin and Izu Islands, which would be defended as savagely as Iwo, are also too small. The Kurils, extending northeast toward Russian Kamchatka, are not much larger, and are blanketed by weather almost as foul as that in the Aleutians...