Word: bouting
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...saber. Larry Cetrulo won three more bouts as he outclassed his Lion opponents. Rick Tolbert won the other saber match. 5-4, but the number three man. Scott Beckett, could not win a bout...
...Crimson received a surprise performance from Micky Irvings. He won all three of his bouts at the epee. Two of them were close, and he won the last bout by three touches...
...foil only Phil Rappaport managed to win a bout. The Lions were so strong, in fact, that the other Crimson foilers could get only six touches. Captain Cliff Ruderman got four of those while Gilbert Castle made the other...
...vulnerability to HK-68 was its lack of what epidemiologists call "herd immunity." Unlike North America, virtually the entire Continent (aside from European Russia) got off lightly last winter. Relatively few Europeans developed either flu or the substantial natural immunity that the grippe confers against a later bout of disease from the same virus. So most Europeans remained susceptible, and they have made little use of the available vaccines...
...where one-third of the population was officially estimated to be bedridden; the blight spread to Yugoslavia and Switzerland, Austria and West Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The Germans' word of the week was Grip-pewelle (flu wave), and Chancellor Willy Brandt went to Tunisia to recuperate from his bout. The Viennese, devoted to hot lemon drinks as a palliative, bid up the price of lemons from their midwinter norm of seven schillings (28?) for ten lemons, to 20 schillings...