Word: fouled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...home runs in a major league game, and "Tip" O'Neill, who hit .435 in 1887 (thanks to the rules of the day, which counted walks as base hits), are perennial favorites. But O'Neill really couldn't hit the floor with a bag of shamrocks--he used to foul-tip everything near the strike zone until he finally walked (hence the nickname, which was later passed on to the Speaker of the House, who is likewise not noted as a heavy hitter). Delahanty, meanwhile, had the poor judgement to end his career by getting drunk and strolling...
...point lead with 3:38 to go in regulation play, and looked like a sure bet to advance to the semifinals of the NCAA divisional championships, when a referee ejected Marquette's 6-ft., 10-in. center Jerome Whitehead from the game for a flagrant personal, a two-shot foul...
...Angry Nurses. Two nurses, Sandra Kramer and Valerie Koster, found foul conditions at the Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Shiprock, N. Mex., where they began working in September 1974. They complained to superiors and finally wrote an open letter to President Ford, an action that received considerable local publicity. "The focus here," they said, "is on filling out forms, doing the least work with the least effort and just getting by." The Indian Health Service fired the nurses in January 1975 for "lack ... [of] ability or ... desire to become a responsible employee of the IHS." Public pressure forced...
Stenhouse capped a hustling Crimson rally by snaring a loose ball near the leftside out-of-bounds line, taking two quick dribbles and sticking a jump shot over two falling Dartmouth defenders from the left side of the foul line to give Harvard its first lead of the game...
...Lions won in an 88-64 walkaway in which they uncorked a 71 per cent shooting spree from the field in the first half and netted 11-13 foul shots for a 45-29 halftime lead...