Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours last week, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru urged Nikita Khrushchev to halt his new program of nuclear tests. But Nehru emerged from the meeting with lines of discouragement etched on his face. "Once again the foul winds of war are blowing," he told a gathering of Indian students and diplomats. "There are atomic tests, and the world grows fearful...
...Similar foul-ups afflict much of the Cuban economy. The Communist bloc barters oil. guns, MIG jets, some machinery and foodstuffs for sugar, plus other Cuban produce such as tuna. But the Reds do not, and apparently cannot, conduct the $1 billion two-way trade in the range of goods that Cuba once enjoyed with...
...Breed. Yesterday's sports sections bristled with evasions of perfectly useful words: four-ply wallop for homerun, apple for baseball, henhouse hoist for foul ball. When athletes were injured, claret flowed, not blood. On one occasion, the Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward, outraged at receipt of a story in which some ballplayer "belted" a homerun, whipped off his own belt, waved it before the eyes of the transgressor, and bellowed: "Did you ever see anyone hit a baseball with one of these...
Fastballs & Foul Tips. Even when the fans, players, coaches and managers are reasonably passive, the umpire faces other dangers. Physical injuries are common. Most dangerous assignment: calling balls and strikes behind home plate, where the umpire is an easy mark for a stray fastball or foul tip. Before he traded his thin, hair-stuffed National League chest protector for an inflated American League model, fragile Jocko Conlan absorbed a regular beating. His hospital record: two broken collarbones, two broken elbows. Last fall in Baltimore, American Leaguer Larry Napp was struck by three successive pitches-one on the mask...
Despite Director Landau's rationalizations, Shakespeare's "bitter comedy" is just a little more relevant to the Conflict Between the States than it is to a Macy's-Gimbels' price war. Effective only in scattered scenes and particularly in the foul language and cold ironies of its Thersites, who, more than anyone else, probably represents Shakespeare's point of view, the play is difficult to stage in any context. But Shakespearean directors have long tried to meet the challenge anyway, notably Tyrone Guthrie, who, with the Old Vic, once did Troilus and Cressida...