Word: bouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three men compete for each team in each of three weapons: foil, epee and sabre. Women compete only in foil and epee, but they enter four athletes in each category. The first fencer to score five touches wins the bout...
Only the fencer with the right of way may score a touch in foil or sabre bout. In order for the touch to register a point, it must fall within a restricted area designated by a vest...
...distinction between foil and sabre bouts is that the foil is a point weapon and thus the fencers must stab their opponents. A sabre is a slash weapon, and thus the fencer may stab or cut. In an epee bout, by contrast, whichever fencer hits first gets the touch...
...case, the promoter got off scot-free while one of his loyal female employees took the fall. According to Jack Newfield's biography Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King, King flew most of those jurors to London for the Tim Witherspoon--Frank Bruno heavyweight title bout eight months after the trial and put them up in a luxury hotel, burying the expenses as part of the fight's promotion...
...legs spread apart. His skin had taken on a disturbing gray patina. And his face appeared strangely bloated--"puffy," in the words of one American official present. In the minds of the CIA analysts, it all pointed to one thing: Yeltsin was poised on the threshold of another bout of heart trouble that could swiftly land him in the hospital, or worse...