Word: fouled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tired of seeing and hearing the U.S. Postal Service [May 22] picked on. They are doing an excellent job. The people are courteous and friendly, and I'm constantly amazed at the speed of service. An occasional foul-up is really insignificant considering the billions of pieces of small, fragile paper handled...
...Butch Hobson's catch of a foul ball for the first out in the ninth summed up the Red Sox' play during the homestand better than any rally or one-two-three inning. Hobson snagged the foul pop while simultaneously running down the steps of the Oriole dugout, and eventually wound up somewhere near the coldcut platter in the Baltimore clubhouse. When he finally came back on to the playing field the ovation was the last and loudest from the throng that seems amazed but not surprised at anything this club does nowadays...
...sense of the economic and environmental impact of an average supertanker comes clear. A single trip south is worth $11 million to Arco. Refined, this one load could fuel 20,000 cars and heat 6,000 average-size houses for a year. If spilled, it would foul hundreds of miles of coastal beach, kill unbelievable amounts of sea life. Either way, the stakes are high...
Last winter's foul weather is certainly part of the reason for the double-digit helping of food inflation...
...Under the Federal Clean Air Act the board has ruled that Sohio can build only if the company pays for a tradeoff: it must locate an existing local industrial polluter and assume the cost for it to clean up its emissions even more than Sohio's oil will foul the air. The oil company has accepted the trade-off and is talking with Southern California Edison about spending some $100 million to buy the latest in expensive smokestack air scrubbers for the utility...