Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is a foul by any rules, and Dancer's Image was disqualified for such an infraction after winning the 1968 Kentucky Derby. A post-race urine test revealed Dancer's violation, and if Larry DiCara and others of Wednesday's officials had been on the ball, they would have gotten a urine sample from the Raccoon, also known as Rick Tarnas, and then disqualified...
Furthermore, he claimed that the writing was filled with "foul language, obscenity, and indecent sexual acts." One of the several criteria for obscenity set forth by the U. S. Supreme Court insists that "the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." Yet the Hansons could not have judged the material "as a whole" since they admitted that they had looked at only parts of the books. And some of the score of "concerned citizens" who joined the Hansons in signing a petition of complaint had not read a single paragraph of the allegedly offensive...
...have-nots have, understandably, decided to fight back, and such coaches as Harkness, Ron Ryan of Colgate. George Manard of St. Lawrence, and Len Ceglarski of Clarkson have screamed foul...
Harvard contributed to the Big Green outburst by failing to get back on defense. In attempting to compensate for its weak defense, the Crimson was forced to foul excessively, 29 times to Dartmouth's 23. But the biggest factor on the loss was a poor shooting percentage...
...information, Bull ran a front-page ad in the London Times requesting "History of E. Bear Esquire. Reminiscences, Data, Photographs." He also issued public pleas for facts and figures on arctophilia during television appearances with "Theodore," oldest of his own Teddies (all of whom, he complains, get into "a foul temper" when he is away from them). Letters poured in from both American and British bear lovers, as well as from several bears ("They are just as articulate as Other Persons"). Bull soon discovered that of the 250 Teddy bears lost on transport vehicles in London each year, almost...