Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only thing the Crimson could salvage Saturday was an individual record: Harry Sacks sank 13 foul shots to up his season's total to 106 and break his own league record of 102 set last year...
Murgo and Tooley got the visitors off to a fast start in the first quarter, but the Crimson kept close until halftime. Sacks, who scored 24 points, added four more foul shots in the first four minutes of the third period to tie the score, and then substitute guard Rollin Perry dropped in a backhand hook that gave the Crimson its first lead, 43-42 at the five-minute mark...
From the third minute of the second period to the seventh minute of the third period, the varsity couldn't score a field goal, and it was off from the foul line as well, making but 34 of 60 for the night...
...some women for "a peccadillo," the men "were conquered by their charms and, tossing aside the implements of torment, subjected the pretty victims to a more tender treatment." The monarch found them in flagrante delicto; the women were whipped while the Sultan laughed at their screams, then thrown into foul cells, where they were kept on starvation rations. The men were also whipped and then chained to the walls of their cells. All twelve were released when Ben Youssef was deposed as Sultan. Previous victims of similar punishments died in their cells...
...Rico in Little Caesar, Robinson's character is less fragrant. But he is not devoid of a certain fatuous charm: his sentimental inability to knock off a stool pegeon of long acquaintance proves his undoing, thus leaving us a foul moral lesson that somehow cluded the censors...