Word: attacking
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...blemish on Cooper's slate came in her final bout against MIT's Jeannette (not Isadora) Wing. In her previous three bouts Cooper had breezed past her opponents 5-1, 5-0,5-0, relying primarily on her favorite tactic of waiting for her opponent to attack, then parrying and counter-attacking for the touch. But against Wing this tactic could not be used as Wing held back forcing Cooper forward. Down 3-0 with only a minute left to fence, Cooper tried two last deparate attacks which ended in touches for Wing and a 5-0 loss...
...Israel, the rash of ruined oranges constituted both a new kind of Palestinian attack and a potential economic disaster. The $172 million annual orange export trade is one of the country's major sources of foreign exchange. Israeli growers insist that the injecting took place at shipping centers in Europe and not at the groves themselves; their hypothesis sounded more and more reasonable as first Spanish and then Moroccan oranges, which move through the same European distribution system, displayed the same mercury traces. The Jerusalem Post sarcastically attacked the Palestinians: "They now send their freedom fighters to stab?...
DIED. Leonard J. Feeney, 80, fiery Jesuit priest who was excommunicated in 1953 for disobeying his religious superiors and for interpreting literally the traditional Catholic doctrine that "outside the Church there is no salvation"; of a heart attack; in Ayer, Mass. After his excommunication, Feeney and his followers, the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, moved to a farm commune in Still River, Mass. In 1972 the aging, ailing Father Feeney was reconciled to the church without recanting...
From the outside, Tomasiewicz was blisteringly hot, going without a miss for the first 15 minutes of the game. Meanwhile, the Harvard attack remained lackadasical throughout the first half, falling to a 35-19 deficit at halftime...
Costly turnovers by the Harvard ballhandlers and the superhuman efforts of Tomasiewicz (20 points, 8 rebounds, 5 steals and 6 assists) buried the Crimson. Center Margaret Meier added 14 points to the Princeton attack, as with 3:38 to go in the game, she put in the 1001st point of her career. The finish was all orange and black, as the Tigers ran away with...