Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From their practice scrimmages the freshman cagers appear to be a better-than-average shooting team. They have several good foul line jump-shooters and at least four forwards who can score from in close to the basket...
...White House the week began with the President in a foul humor. He resented the blatantly political charges by the Democratic Advisory Council that he had handled the Little Rock school integration crisis indecisively. He was concerned about the gyrations of the stock market. He was infuriated by White House Adviser (for foreign economic policy) Clarence Randall's description of the Soviet Sputnik as "a silly bauble." Dwight Eisenhower scowled darkly at the humdrum text of a speech on medical education, tb be delivered to the National Fund for Medical Education that night in New York. Growled...
...Series, a Yankee hit a ball into the left-field bleachers. It was foul by one foot. A home run would have won the Series, but Grover Cleveland Alexander went on to strike out Tony Lazzeri and become "the courageous old man" who fought off a hangover to save the Series for the Cardinals...
...annual "grain race" from Australia to England. Some 20 windjammers hauled anchor down under at the start of that race in 1932, but by 1949 only two were left to make the run: the Pamir and her sister ship, the Passat. One by one, the others had fallen foul of wind and wave and the economic pressures of their own huffing and puffing competitors. But even though the world of commerce chose to bypass the windjammers, there were many, particularly among the hornyhanded sailormen of northern Europe, who cherished the brave tradition they represented, and insisted that only sail could...
...foreign oil-and to soothe the politically potent ire of Texas' independent oilmen-the Interior Department two months ago set up a voluntary import curb on big oil companies. Last week the program's administrator. Navy Captain Matthew V. Carson Jr.. logged a mutinous crew and foul weather ahead. The companies were asked to cut imports 10% below their 1954-to-1956 levels, bring in only 755,700 bbl. of foreign crude a day. But Captain Carson's first statistics showed a daily August total of 982,300 bbl. The companies themselves estimate daily imports from...