Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Earlene Roberts, 60, the fuzzy-minded housekeeper who ran the Dallas rooming house where Lee Harvey Oswald lived-and proved a helpful witness before the Warren Commission-died last January. Ramparts says that she had been subjected to "intensive police harassment," adds with sinister implication of foul play that "no autopsy was performed." In fact, Mrs. Roberts had severe heart disease, throat ulcers and cataracts. The cause of death, "acute myocardial infarction," was determined after an autopsy by a doctor at Parkland Hospital...
...final period Penn penetrated deep into Yale territory twice, but an interception and personal foul penalty halted both drives, Yale paid a heavy price for the victory, however. Safetyman Paul Jones was hauled from the field with a knee injury, and halfback Calvin Hill was carried away with a separated shoulder...
...Yale football players named Walter Camp and Oliver Thompson made their contribution to a better world on Nov. 30, 1876. Tackled by a Princeton defender, Camp did an utterly unprecedented thing: in desperation, he flung the football down the field. Thompson somehow grabbed it and scampered for a touchdown. "Foul! Foul!" screamed the outraged Princeton team. The bewildered referee settled the ensuing rhubarb the only way he could think of. He flipped a coin, Yale won the toss-and the forward pass was born...
...often attacked their crops was nothing less than God's punishment for their sins. The Romans, who knew the same agricultural scourge, placed a special god in charge of it and prayed to him for mercy. In King Lear, Shakespeare blamed rust's presence on a "foul fiend" named Flibbertigibbet. Whatever its origin, the fungus is still thriving; its red, yellow and orange splotches on stems and leaves cause a grain-crop loss of hundreds of millions of dollars every year. And every time that modern agronomists breed a resistant grain, within a decade...
...Foul Shape & Fair. Magsaysay had gone a long way toward curing the Philippines' ills before his untimely death. His successors, however, were either uninterested in putting an end to graft and lawlessness or simply did not have the strength to cope. Ferdie Marcos did. As the youngest Liberty Party Congressman ever elected, his name was attached to legislation that ranged from civil rights to land reform. Off the floor, Bachelor Marcos had a reputation as a sportsman and Lothario: when he wasn't blasting quail and ducks with his 20-gauge Browning over-under, he was breaking hearts in Forbes...