Word: foule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twelve years Biologist Phil Gruenberg has watched a foul parade float down the New River, a bile-green waterway that slices across the Mexico- California border. While scooping up water samples near the border town of Calexico, Calif., he has seen dead cats and chickens bob past, along with tires, slaughterhouse waste, laundry suds and human feces, and once, a dead man's body. The unseen horrors are, if anything, even more disturbing: the New is saturated with toxic chemicals and teems with disease-causing viruses and bacteria. Warns Imperial County Health Department Officer Dr. Lee Cottrell...
...Game Six, enabling the Mets to tie the Series and force a seventh game. What many may not remember, however, is how Wilson managed to stay alive at the plate again and again against Boston's Bob Stanley. For 3 bonus points, how many two-strike pitches did Wilson foul off before drilling the fateful grounder...
...took the natural first step, going to Brines to be outfitted with a navy blue goretex wind-breaker (men's extra-small), and matching foul weather pants. Now all I had to do was figure out why the coxswain sat the wrong way in the boat...
...Knight's picture of the place. Driving along, he likes to count the hoops. His best player, Guard Steve Alford of New Castle, learned to count on a scoreboard. Ever since Alford was a high school "Mr. Basketball," the Midwestern equivalent of a peerage, even his regimen on the foul line has been as famous in Indiana as the frost. (Touch your socks, your shorts; one dribble, two dribbles, three; shoot, swish...
...fairly new 45-sec. shooting clock have permanently changed the game and for the moment improved the drama. "One of the most important balances in basketball," says Pete Newell, who coached championship teams at San Francisco and California, "is the value of the ball against the penalty of the foul. That might be out of whack now. Promiscuous fouling could be coming." The wiliest coaches, like Jerry Tarkanian of Nevada, Las Vegas, have been passing up three-on-two fast breaks for three-point shots. What do you do with guards who run away from the basket...