Word: foule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told them that his wallet and credit cards had been stolen at the airport and that his parents couldn't be reached. The dean's office was unaware of any foul play...
...shuttle Columbia with Florida Congressman Bill Nelson aboard--sources on the presidential commission told TIME that NASA tried to persuade technicians of Rockwell Corp.'s Rocketdyne Division to bypass faulty valves on lines feeding the liquid-oxygen fuel tank. Rocketdyne refused, and NASA learned later that a foul-up was causing the huge external fuel tank to drain rather than fill. "If that orbiter had lifted off with the tank almost empty, it would have imploded, collapsed, and that would have finished the shuttle," said the commission source...
...Sons of bitches," were the exact eloquent words he pronounced at the end of a picture-taking session on Friday. It's nice to know that the top dog in the White House is as human as the rest of us foul-mouthed Amercans. But the Gipper certainly doesn't think...
Billig, 55, was chief of Bethesda's cardiothoracic surgery in 1983 and '84. He is charged with five counts of involuntary manslaughter resulting from technical foul-ups and poor judgment in the operating room. A five-page list detailing the charges specifies that Billig "wrongfully sewed" and tied blood vessels during bypass surgery, "improperly manipulated" heart tissue and, in one case, "tore" a woman's aorta and "improperly repaired" it. Also listed are 24 counts of dereliction of duty for performing unauthorized operations. If he is convicted on all counts, the surgeon, who was commissioned in December 1982, faces dismissal...
...incident began during the third period of the December 8 contest, when Cornell Public Safety Officers entered the crowd to apprehend a foul character who had tied a dead chicken to the Harvard goal, according to Marc S. Lacey, a reporter for the Cornell Daily...