Word: foule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pattern was this same, unchanging chain of events: foul, whistle, dribble, swish...
Harvard athletes are not alone in the world of sports and superstition. Tennis players are notorious for not stepping on the court's lines. Baseball players and managers carefully step over the foul line...
...other hand, there were a few outstanding plays, notably a somersaulting grab of a foul fly by left-fielder Mary MacKinnon in the first, and a diving grab of a soft liner up the middle by second-baseman Mary Baldauf in the sixth...
...merely white, Bird is a paler shade of paste. As a moment of silence descends over him at the foul line, a youthful voice calling out from a courtside row can be heard in the mezzanine: "Larry Bird, why are you so white?" Bird laughs later. "It's amazing. I guess I'm a white superstar in a black man's game, but it's open to all colors." Sometimes from exertion he turns a flamingo shade of pink. Perching on one leg at nearly every pause in the game, he compulsively rubs and preens the tops and bottoms...
...pagans are licentious and foul-mouthed. They despise the black robes but fear the white man's power. They also covet the iron kettles, muskets and other trade goods the Europeans can provide in exchange for escort services. For the man of God, the journey is a trial of faith and a temptation in the wilderness. Each bend in the river holds new dangers to body and spirit: hunger, pestilence, raiding Iroquois and challenges hurled at Christianity by an Indian shaman...