Word: foule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the votes were counted, the P.R.I. had swept all 17 seats. The opposition immediately accused the ruling party of having used ten-year-old voters, a drunken electoral representative and out-and-out ballot box-stuffing to ensure victory, but it has so far offered no proof of foul play...
Once the British task force set sail, its commanders had only a hazy notion of what to do when they arrived. They met an unexpectedly formidable enemy: the foul South Atlantic winter, which claimed lives and aircraft and often made fighting impossible. The war's major weapons, as expected, were missiles. Yet some of the most advanced models stumbled: Argentina's air-to-ship Exocets sank the destroyer Sheffield but usually missed their mark, and Britain's ground-to-air Rapiers proved unreliable. In the end, it was not technology that won and lost...
...BEEN a long wait for the people at National Lampoon since their first and only movie success Animal House. And it has been a while since Saturday Night Live alumnus Chevy Chase warmed America's cockles in "Foul Play." These probably explain why Chase and director Harold Ramis (of Stripes fame) have appeared on every talk show in the country at least twice in the last month, and why the Lampoon magazine wasted an entire issue to promote this comedy...
...Foul weather and foreign creditors besiege a troubled nation
Fair territory in baseball, as defined by the foul lines, extends in theory to infinity, but whoever thought it reached Saskatoon? For half a season, Montreal and Toronto have been leading half the divisions in the major leagues, and now a Canadian World Series is more than just a chilling thought. It's a possibility, God save the Queen...