Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sinking nearly all of their foul shots, the navy team picked up a number of sure points. For the Stahlmen, Jack Clark was the only man who could find the range on free throws. Although both teams were rusty in their shooting, Squantum had the edge under the basket and used their height to capitalize on rebounds...
...sense of destiny was destined to fall foul of the suspicions of other Latin American countries; of the fact that Argentines have long believed that their special role is willy-nilly to defend the South American continent against the Colossus of the North; and of the fact that the U.S., engaged in a life & death struggle with the Axis, was lining up the Latin American nations on her side under the guise of the Good Neighbor Policy...
...hunger and uncertainty. It was different from any winter since 1939, for the focus of despair had shifted from German-occupied countries to Germany. But retreating Nazis left chaotic disruption, vital shortages, and something more portentous. Liberated Europe was like a sea bottom from which the ebbing of a foul tide had exposed strange, unfamiliar, disturbing forms-the forces of the social war of which World War II was a military expression...
Collisions between planes and birds are reported by U.S. airline pilots about twice a week. They can disable wing tips, dent the fuselage, foul the motor-but the chief danger is a windshield break. Last month a DC-3 almost crashed in Iowa when a duck came through the windshield in an explosion of glass and feathers and knocked out the pilot (the copilot saved the plane...
...Chinese bureaucracy: "If a number of lowergrade officials have cultivated foul habits in their attitude to the higher grades ... flattery becomes prevalent, truth vanishes . . . corruption nourishes...