Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great running fight between the Congress and the President, the House had struck a foul blow. Last week the Senate tried to make amends for that blow...
...thick with rust. The once-elaborate captain's cabin is a mess of shattered furniture, moldering linoleum. The cork-lined deckhead is caving in. ... The wooden deck is pocked with the borings of teredos (shipworms). . . . From her opened hatches comes the nauseating odor of gases. Inside her foul carcass are rotting vegetables, meats, ship's supplies, human bodies. ... In the horrible, blackened wreckage of the crew's quarters you can still see a few grey bones...
Democrats moaned in the immemorial anguish of the gerrymandered. Cried they: "Steal," "dastardly," "foul blow." Replied Governor Martin: "It's just the good old American way. When we Republicans were in the minority, we bellyached when they ran over us. It just has to be done...
...Objective. Occupation of Attu will give the U.S. a bomber strip which the Japs recently built (but apparently have never been able to use in the foul Aleutian weather). That strip, when & if it can be used, places the Jap naval base at Paramoshiri, 750 miles to the west on the Northern tip of the Kurile Islands, within easy reach of U.S. bombers. Established there, U.S. fighting men would be only 650 miles from Hokkaido, topmost of the main Japanese islands...
...Sherman Clark hit a sharp single to left, and Gleason followed with a two-bagger, Clark pulling up at third, Captain Moe Berg dumped a bunt down the third base line and Clark romped home while the Jumbo infield waited anxiously and vainly for the ball to roll foul. Walt Sorgi clouted a long double, scoring Gleason and Berg, to clinch the ball game...