Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard had its seventh team foul only five minutes into the second half and Manhattan made good on the bonus, scoring 25 points (25-of-33 free throws) from the free throw line...
...been exaggerated. One of them is Father Thomas Fitzpatrick, director of Caritas International, the Rome-based Catholic emergency-aid organization. "There was not massive corruption or diversion during the 1984 famine," says Fitzpatrick, an American who supervised Catholic aid in Ethiopia at the time. "There weren't distribution foul-ups to the extent that has been reported. It's true that some ships were backed up in the harbors. True, it rained once unexpectedly, and some grain was exposed and began to rot. But no more than 3% of all the aid that went through our hands went to waste...
Chandler followed with a drive up the middle a minute later, drawing the foul for a three-point play. Harvard took a 46-43 lead, and never trailed again...
...greed that, in Churchill's view, has permeated London's financial community since last year's Big Bang deregulation, the satire has become all the more timely since the worldwide stock crash. The wild, convoluted plot revolves around an insidious insider-trading scam that leads to murder most foul...
...Cremation of Sam McGee (Greenwillow; $13) is comic art. Some 80 years after the poem was composed, Painter Ted Harrison has complemented the work with bold and antic landscapes of the Yukon in the days of the gold rush. McGee, frozen over, demands, "I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains." His listener agrees, only to find a surprise when he opens the furnace door. Sam is inside, burbling, "Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm." A one-joke poem; still, how many jokes...