Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State officials blame the foul-up on their decision to use California's list of three-letter, three-digit combinations rather than prepare their own. The officials tried to eliminate prefixes that might be offensive to Iowans but overlooked GAY. Says Scott County Treasurer William Cusack: "Out in California I'm sure there is a waiting line for GAY plates. But not in Iowa." He is offering to exchange the GAY plates-1,000 were issued -on payment...
...Longtime Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa was still missing; foul play was suspected. The feds were investigating the union's pension funds for financial, uh, irregularities (like loans to mobsters, unsecured loans to friends, etc.). The biggest labor union in the United States. Bang...
...Duck" Fleming popped one in from 18 feet, but that was the last Harvard bucket for almost eight minutes as Northeastern ran off 15 unanswered points. When Robert Taylor finally canned a 15-footer from just left of the foul line at 11:05 the score was 60-46 Northeastern, and the Crimson had been outscored...
McLaughlin would not make excuses for his team. "It was a very boring game," he said. "With 66 foul shots taken, it just turned into a free throw shooting contest. We lose our confidence and we start pressing. You can see that in our foul shooting...
Harvard hung tough for the next few minutes, trading foul shots with Princeton in a game that was chopped up by a total of 45 foul calls. But a Steve Mills whirlybird layup with 2:30 remaining spread the Tiger lead to five, 51-46, and Harvard--now 3-12, 1-2 in the Ivies--had nothing left with which to catch the weakest Princeton squad it's faced in years...