Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said OCDirector James M. Landis: No plans have been made to equip the whole U.S. urban population with masks, as has been done in Britain, "until the present frontiers change." And the whole foul problem hung in delicate balance: the civilian frontier might not change for the duration. Axis as well as Ally feared the terrible retaliation. Alabama's Senator Lister Hill demanded masks for all industrial workers- and soon. The Army had established civil defense courses on five campuses (Amherst, Texas A. & M., Stanford, Florida, Maryland)-and the courses featured gas instruction. Good Old Mustard. U.S. armed forces...
...Connollies were a diamondlike quintessence of the pressures of centuries of slum life. They were Doris, a pig-eyed nymphomaniac; Micky, "a child of few words and those, for the most part, foul," who developed a taste for whittling off the heads of domestic animals; and little Marlene, who liked to finish off the dogs' supper plates and who promptly restored all she ate all over the floors. There they stood, "one leering, one lowering, and one drooling," a frightful triptych, the terror of the countryside. Basil found inspired use for them. Assuming power as billeting officer, he visited...
Explanations crusted the situation like barnacles on a foul bottom. The past record of the port was as smelly as its long, cobblestoned Fish Pier. Port officials said that union-labor rules delayed shiploading and unloading operations. A.F. of L. longshoremen refused to work nights. Union rules required double-time wages ($3.60 an hour) for work during meal hours: breakfast, 5 a.m.-8 a.m.; dinner, 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Because of a "lapse system" which allowed 20-minute rest periods, one operator figures that an average of only 17 out of a 20-man stevedore gang were ever...
...stayed behind for 35 of the 40 minutes, though never by more than eight points. But where they were short on sinew the Mountaineers more than made up with heart. With the score at 45-all and 20 seconds left to play, little Hicks sank the winning foul shot. As the timekeeper's buzzer went off, Hamilton was fouled and sank another...
...thread of his unique personality. Chaplin cinemaddicts will recognize with tears of joy two famed scenes: trapped by a blizzard in a lonely mountain cabin with a friendly prospector named Big Jim (Mack Swain), Charlie hopefully removes a shoe and places it in the stewpot. Tenderly basting the foul boot with its own juices, he nurses it along to Big Jim's bursting point. "Not quite done yet," soothes the Little Fellow. "Give it two more minutes." He serves it up with a shoestring for potatoes, munches it contentedly...