Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown wound up and let fly with the political season's longest metaphor. Cried he of Republican Opponent Richard Nixon. "You've seen the scouting reports on the opposition. You know you can look for a lot of low, inside curves and some hot ones down the foul line. And it is a matter of record that their star pitcher is a man who will balk at nothing...
...come!" But Mantle and Maris only shake their heads sadly; and then Mantle, with a wisdom that few fans have suspected him of concealing, gives Hutch a few pointers on the great game of life. "Hutch," he drawls stolidly, "yew lied. Now son, yew cain't make a foul ball faar, jes' by movin' the baselines...
Though at times he blew foul or fraudulent, television will be forever indebted to Jack Paar for desperately needed williwaws of spontaneity. Observed Bobby...
Nixon survived five of his six crises-and each, in one way or another, led to the sixth. Some may wonder why he calls his campaign for the presidency a crisis-except, of course, that he lost. Despite some cries of foul play against Kennedy. * Nixon attributes defeat to three major factors : 1) "The campaign was too long, from all standpoints," 2) "A candidate must save himself for the major events-and his staff must never forget this," and 3) "I spent too much time on substance, and too little time on appearance.'' These may indeed have been...
...would have spoken. Yet at the very heart of his determination to be true to Huck lay an awareness that censorship was inevitable. As Twain wrote in 1880, "Fielding and Smollett could portray the beastliness of their day in the beastliest language; we have plenty of foul subjects to deal with in our day, but we are not allowed to approach them very near..." 1601 was the junk-heap into which he tossed, half-humorously, half-despairingly, the knowledge and the words which in Victorian America would not have been tolerated in his masterpiece...