Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what Ginn called "a tremendous mess and a real foul-up on the parts of ETS," many students nationwide never received the tickets listing the location of their test site guaranteeing them admission to the test...
Ginn said the foul-up is "the worst thing I've ever seen. It's an absolute disaster." Students taking the test, Ginn said, were faced with the extra burden of anxiety from ETS's late and haphazard process. "It's a terrible inconvenience. I was really unhappy about it, but people will be able to get to the test," he added...
Next day, the band arrives at the school, amid the principal's "final solution"--a massive vinyl-burning. We watch horrified as Who's Next, Sticky Fingers and Rocket to Russia go up in foul-smelling smoke. But Soles breaks into the principal's office and, with the P.A.'s aid, turns Lombardi into "Rock and Roll High School." The kids go wild, the Ramones break into "Do You Wanna Dance," and in a scene of mayhem they rip the school apart--in the end actually blowing...
Three more times in that drive the Harvard defense offended the officials--once for an eight-yd. pass interference call, once on an offsides violation, and once on a foul personal action. Harvard could not escape unscathed after handing UMass 46 yards in the 58-yd. drive. But the defense, after its four miscues dug in at the 1 1/2 and forced the Minutemen to settle for a 22-yd. field goal...
Harvard mailed some of its tenants their rent increase notices after the legal deadline, and officials say they had no plans to tell tenants of the situation or to correct it. "It's not our fault," Robert Silverman, Real Estate Department offical said, blaming city administrative foul-ups for the delay...