Word: fouled
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most Star-Mangled Banner Even George Bush didn't have to read her lips to know that Roseanne Barr's televised rendition of the national anthem before a San Diego Padres baseball game was a foul bawl. It was not only screechy, it was scratchy...
...news conference, the President explained lamely that the new policy would "continue these minority scholarships as best we can." But civil rights advocates and educational professionals immediately cried foul. The latest policy twist, they charged, was administratively unworkable, legally shaky and likely to invite endless litigation. Moreover, by outlawing the use of general funds, the ruling placed the largest source of money for minority scholarships off limits. "On issues of race and sex discrimination, Bush is merely Ronald Reagan in sheep's clothing," fumed Ralph Neas, head of the Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil Rights...
...trod by Protestants, historians and other feminists. However, she displays a polemical and sarcastic flair ("theology increasingly became the business of bachelors") and merrily marshals rather selective evidence of priestly misogyny through the ages. One 12th century divine urged men to remember that a pretty woman starts as "a foul-smelling drop of semen" and is destined to be "food for worms." Ranke- Heinemann's acerbic wit is less impressive when she turns to the modern era. She cannot, for instance, bring herself to acknowledge Pope John Paul II's praise of sexual pleasure within marriage...
...NUNN (even money). Word is that Georgia Senator wants a place in the gate. He'll attract big money, but powerful liberals may foul on the turns...
...imponderables range from the nitty and literally gritty (how badly will the fine desert sand foul the gears of tanks and the breeches of rifles?) to the conceptual (could U.S. troops bypass the dug-in Iraqi forces in Kuwait with a flanking attack?). They include questions of psychology: Is the Iraqi army battle hardened from eight years of war against Iran, or battle weary? Would the troops on the front line, many of whom are thought to be ill-trained draftees who know they are cannon fodder, fight hard or give up quickly? For that matter, how battle ready...