Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditional rules of courtesy (always ask permission to come aboard, never wear leather soles on a deck, never touch polished brass), insist on such levity as cocktail flags-or worse, flags that show a ball and chain (wife aboard), or a battle ax (mother-in-law aboard). They will foul the fine, salty lines of nautical language with mere jibberish, cool their beer with CO fire extinguishers, are blissfully ignorant of the well-founded Rules of the Road...
...Foul Hogs." It was easy for a dictatorship to fill the streets of China's cities, from Nanning in the south to Harbin in the subarctic north, with marching thousands, who obediently shouted the identical tongue-twisting slogans: "Smash the foreign interventionist plot to undermine China's reunification!" and "Oppose the rebellion in Tibet instigated by the imperialists and foreign reactionaries...
...strident threats; even India's docile Prime Minister Nehru was pictured as an archvillain who is holding the escaped Dalai Lama "under duress." Now India joined the list of monstrous enemies: Formosa, Britain, the U.S., even tiny states like Thailand and Nepal. "We will never allow those foul hogs to poke their snouts into our beautiful garden!" shouted a Congress delegate...
...victorious oarers and oaresses modestly disclaimed all aspirations of racing at Henley this summer. In fact, one more modest member of the winning boat admitted a slight foul during the course of the contest...
...week an earsplitting verbal thunderstorm played about the grey but unbowed head of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, first Viscount of El Alamein. Monty had decided to fly off to Moscow to see Khrushchev. In almost unanimous disapproval, the British press made it plain that it thought Monty would somehow foul up the summit conference. "The idea of you having a heart-to-heart talk with Khrushchev gives us the collywobbles," cried the Laborite Daily Herald. The Daily Sketch had some advice "to an old and meddling soldier: FADE AWAY." In just as unseasonably warm tones, the British press has been...