Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is straight out of the Marquis de Sade, with some Sartrean existentialist glosses provided by the doctor's morphine-addicted mistress ("The world is foul, Commissioner, rotting like a badly stored fruit") and a trained nurse who has written a pamphlet titled: Death, Goal and Purpose of Our Life, A Practical Guide. In the end, Barlach sweats out the ticking last hours, minutes, seconds before the time set for the operation he knows will end in his own death under the doctor's sadistic knife. Pat to the final instant comes Salvation, in the mysterious appearance...
Pete Bisgeier kept Cornell moving in the second half when Krumbein picked up his fourth foul and began to play more cautiously...
...Thomson, Canadian-born publisher of 93 papers, had hired Tony as "artistic adviser" to Thomson's prestigious London Sunday Times (circ. 1,022,913). The salary-a reported 7,500 quid ($21,000)-was regal enough on Fleet Street. But the rest of Fleet Street promptly hollered foul...
Faced with this transistorized stool pigeon, highway patrols are taking alarm, crying "Foul!" The city of Chicago, the District of Columbia, and the state of Connecticut have banned Radar Sentry. Other states take some comfort from the fact that Radar Sentry is erratic; in informal tests. New York experts found that even diathermy machines and neon lights can trigger its squeal. But if the gadget continues to sell, many states will consider banning it. Says New York State Motor Vehicle Commissioner William...
...Crimson outscored Cornell, 45 to 43, in the second period but continued to foul too much. The varsity's Dennis Lynch left the game with five personals midway in the second half, and Bill Danner was banished shortly before the final whistle...