Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Schlesinger took over as Secretary of Defense in 1973, he worked overtime at becoming an absolute terror. At 6:15 in the morning he would blaze into his office in such a foul mood that his staff was afraid to speak to him. "He could melt the stars off the shoulders of a four-star general," recalls one former aide. There was an angle in his anger. Schlesinger wanted to dominate the entrenched bureaucracy of the Pentagon, which has defied the mastery of all but two or three of the eleven other Secretaries. He managed to start rebuilding...
Very little-as one horrid event after another has proved in the past two decades-except possibly Director Frankenheimer's skill at building action sequences like the foul-up of the Super Bowl circus, which is the climax of Black Sunday. He has always been at his best when a script presents large technical challenges: the tight spaces of Birdman of Alcatraz, the wild railroad chase in The Train, the assassination attempt at a political convention in The Manchurian Candidate, to name the best of them all. Here he has more and perhaps richer elements than ever to play...
Kirkland then drove the lane, tieing the game and drawing a foul. Talk about PRESSURE, and storybook finishes. With college scouts and big press writeups hovering in the wings, Kirkland sunk the shot and Elk Grove High...
...Jocks on the scoreboard with the contest's first points, a pair of swish foul-shots. A Gorski lay-up boosted the pad to 4-0 before freshman sensation Caryn Curry's jumper from the key broke the ice for the Division II Massachusetts Women's champions...
...usual with anti-freedom vigilantes--especially the type like Stephen Saperstein who think themselves otherwise--they forever shout "foul" when caught with their hands in the cookie...