Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later he freed himself from his man, by pulling the other's arm and throwing him off balance, and cut for the basket. Near the foul line he caught the ball, jumped around like a rabbit, and threw the ball with both hands at the basket. It sailed over the backboard and delayed the game thirty seconds...
...Kipling had some money saved up. He turned his back on India and apprenticeship, returned to England to dip his fiery pen into the Thames. Almost immediately the Thames took fire. At 24 Kipling was the literary man of the hour. He cannily steered clear of cliques, ran foul of no colleagues. "I have never directly or indirectly criticized any fellow-craftsman's output, or encouraged any man or woman to do so." He walked into success like a happy somnambulist: "That period was all, as I have said, a dream, in which it seemed that I could push...
...Huskies yearlings piled up a quick lead and at the half were leading 25-18. The Crimson came back in the third quarter paced by Captain Lutz who sunk four from the floor and a foul shot. But the opposition was too polished and the Yardlings never threatened after this...
...Item: a foul-mouthed police inspector (Stanley G. Wood) laughs heartily at every fresh evidence of human distress...
...there is somehow a terrible heroism. And the theme of the play, if we may be allowed to extract it out of the molten swirl of observations on Communism, Fascism, the League of Nations, Germany, Italy, England, the Middle West, yea-man hot stuff, is that men, despite the foul mess they kick up now and then, are essentially decent animals, except for one percent consisting of such specimens as international munitions-makers...