Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rail lines from the south, the Black Sea area, had been cut off, and the Nazis were on their way. Again U.S. aid might be too little and too late. There remained Vladivostok-and that was a long, long way from Moscow (5,000 miles of inferior railroad and foul weather) or from wherever the Russian Army must be kept supplied and fighting. And U.S. aid thus far, in four months of fierce Russian resistance, had consisted of 200 to 300 bombers (some diverted from Britain), four tankers of oil to Vladivostok in September...
...crowding the nation into war, and charging "the ex-hero's appeal to prejudice and bigotry," you misrepresent him and the whole movement for a Constitutional war or none. I have read every issue of TIME and have found it usually fair. But this is so unfair and foul it stinks...
...night last week Lieut. General Ben Lear, commander of the Red Army in the current war games, was nearly knocked out by a rabbit punch, but the umpires called it a foul. Into his headquarters crept a "suicide squad" of seven Blue soldiers. Stealthily they touched off a couple of smoke pots, representing explosives powerful enough to blow the General and his staff skyhigh. The smoke pots sent 50 correspondents, officers and privates gasping out into the night, but they didn't incommode the General. He had stepped out just before the raiders appeared. Six of the seven raiders...
Many an industrialist cried out last week that the National Defense Mediation Board had dealt industry a foul blow: the "maintenance of membership" clause (TIME, Sept. 1), which the Board had recommended in the Federal Shipbuilding case, was a kick in the groin...
...summer School officials, food at the Union, (where all Freshmen cat together) miraculously escaped serious criticism. During the history of Harvard, food served by the university has come in for more brickbats than any of its other features. Since the days when they wailed that "the ale is foul," and "the butter stinketh," students have periodically attacked the bill of fare. Thus it is notable that this year's summer members let the Union off with only a few mild criticisms...